Lightelligence was founded in 2017 as a pioneering company offering photonics-based computing solutions. Equipped with a skilled technology R&D team and a seasoned engineering team, Lightelligence has made rapid advances by collaborating closely with the industry's leaders in semiconductors, cloud computing, finance, and autonomous driving. The company has successfully taken cutting-edge photonics technology and transformed it into groundbreaking computing solutions, which have brought exponential improvements in computing power while dramatically reducing energy consumption. This innovative approach makes Lightelligence a leader in the field of next-generation computing technologies.

Technologies

oMAC (Optical Multiply Accumulate)

oMAC is an innovative technology that utilizes a CMOS-compatible silicon photonics platform to provide state-of-the-art computational performance. Combining optical-electrical co-design and advanced packaging solutions, oMAC provides a new paradigm for computing. The technology uses high-speed, compact, and configurable modulators, enabling faster and more efficient data processing.

Core and unique computing architecture of oMAC is its coherent and incoherent designs. This can be used for a vast computing scheme, which can be appropriate for various applications. Second, oMAC integrates HW-algorithm co-optimization, which ensures friendly interaction between the hardware and algorithm, thus improving efficiency as well as performance.

It is CMOS-compatible and uses a silicon photonic process platform for reduced manufacturing complexity and cost. This employs a high-speed photo-electric modulator along with an innovative MZI-based interference model which introduces interfering and non-interfering solutions to maximize the computational effectiveness.

oMAC is notable for achieving superior energy efficiency, extreme low latency, and enhanced parallel computing capabilities. Thus it is highly suitable for high performance applications. Lower dependency upon process nodes and lesser manufacturing cost, this new technology opens up the door for numerous industries to revolutionize and henceforth bring great improvement within the computational speed and overall energy conservation.

oNOC (Optical Network on Chip)

This is a revolutionary technology intended to revolutionize data transfer within and between electronic chips. It is based on optical chip networks and accelerates the communication of data within one electronic chip (EIC) and among several chips in one package unit. The ratio of energy efficiency is significantly low at less than 1pJ/bit. It is six times more energy-efficient than the eNOC system.

Its novelty design core is in the oNOC's innovative network topology of communication, with connection of single or multiple EICs using nodes on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). Thus, it provides high-speed data interconnects with high-bandwidth capabilities, significantly enhancing electronic systems' performance. With this network, optical broadcasting along with WDM allows for simultaneous transmission of data over multiple wavelengths, which further accelerates data transfer rates.

oNET (Optical Networking)

 oNOC brings several advantages, such as low latency, energy efficiency, and distance-independent performance, and is very suitable for high-performance applications. Its versatility is robust enough to support high-speed interconnects across the different types of electronic chips, responding to the increasingly bandwidth-constrained use cases. With applications in wide-ranging industries such as semiconductors, cloud computing, and high-performance computing, oNOC is set to improve data transfer while reducing energy consumption in advanced electronic systems.

oNET is the integration of photonic chips with an optical bus, allowing data collection and interaction at high speed within a single package unit as well as across multiple package units through light propagation. This technology boasts bandwidths of orders of magnitude greater than those of traditional electronic networks, or eNETs. With an energy consumption of approximately 2pJ/bit, oNET is four times more energy-efficient than NVLink 3.0, thus making it a highly efficient solution for modern computing systems. Its latency of about 3.5ns is one-third of that of NVLink 3.0, significantly improving data transfer speeds and responsiveness.

The oNET system uses a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and EIC co-package. The latter serves as a transceiver whose task is to transmit information to the external system, effecting electrical-optical to optical-electrical conversions through its PIC. The reception mode is such that once the data comes from a source, it goes the opposite way: through PIC to EIC.

oNET is designed for high energy efficiency, very low optical propagation loss, and robust performance. Its high bandwidth, low latency, and distance-independent properties make it the best solution for high-performance applications, enhancing interconnects between computing components significantly, and with that, decreases energy consumption.

Yichen Shen - Founder and CEO

"Lightelligence is revolutionizing computing with cutting-edge photonics technology, driving unprecedented performance improvements while dramatically reducing energy consumption."