Tag: lasers

  • The quantum bottleneck isn’t chips — it’s lasers, and Vexlum wants to fix it

    For Vexlum CEO and CTO Jussi-Pekka Penttinen, in Finland, there’s a simple way to tell if a company has moved from startup to scale-up: whether it has a sauna in the factory. “We do. So we consider ourselves a real company now.” When people think about semiconductors, they usually think about silicon chips. But Vexlum read more

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  • Enlightra exits stealth with $15M to power energy-efficient AI data centre lasers

    Enlightra, a deeptech startup developing chip-scale multiwavelength lasers for next-generation data transmission, has raised a total of $15 million. Investors include Y Combinator, Runa Capital, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Protocol Labs, Halo Labs, Asymmetry Ventures, and TRAC VC, among others. Modern AI training increasingly depends on faster connections between GPUs, yet many systems still rely on read more

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    Enlightra exits stealth with M to power energy-efficient AI data centre lasers