#Photonics — Kunal Ganglani

Photonic NPU Chips: The Light-Based Tech That Could Make NVIDIA GPUs Obsolete [2026]

Germany just funded a photonic AI chip that uses light instead of electrons. It could be 10x more efficient than NVIDIA GPUs. Here's what engineers need to know.

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