With the rise of AI, energy resources and processing power surge – and traditional computing can’t keep up. Q.ANT’s Native Computing happens in the photonic realm. The Q.ANT Native Processing Server NPS, the first commercial photonic processor, sets a new era going beyond traditional computing. With the promise of up to 30 times the energy efficiency of conventional CMOS technologies, the system reduces operational costs and the environmental impact of data centers.
With Native Computing, we tackle three fundamental challenges of future computing:
Conventional compute technologies reach their limits.
As AI workloads grow exponentially, CMOS-based architectures approach economic and technical limits. Scaling performance within acceptable power and cost constraints becomes difficult.
Energy consumption of AI surges.
The power requirements of hardware to date used for AI rise leading to significant energy demand at data center scale. This trajectory poses both economic and environmental challenges.
Chip manufacturing is geographically and structurally concentrated.
The current landscape of AI hardware production is centralized in few regions and dominated by a small number of companies. Q.ANT’s photonic chips can be produced on refurbished semicon fabrication lines enabling cost-efficient and decentralized chip production.
The Q.ANT Native Processing Server (NPS) is the first commercial photonic processor. It promises up to 30 times the energy efficiency of conventional CMOS technologies, reducing the operational costs and the environmental impact of data centers significantly. The product is fully compatible with the existing computing ecosystem. Experience the platform powered by light, where complex mathematical models for AI training and inference, machine learning, physics simulations and time-series analysis can be executed with exceptional performance.
We provide complimentary access to the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies 2025 report. Learn how Photonic Computing can enable energy efficient data centers in a future of rising AI and HPC.
Fueled by Industry Collaborations, Funded Initiatives, and Innovative Research Partnerships.
Stuttgart/Garching, Germany – July 22, 2025 – Q.ANT has delivered its Native Processing Server (NPS) to the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), marking the first integration [...]
Largest Series A funding for photonic computing in Europe will accelerate commercial rollout of light-based processors to address AI’s escalating energy and scalability crisis [...]
For the first time, ISC attendees can experience analog photonic computing in action QANT’s Native Processing Server (NPS) can deliver breakthrough levels of performance and [...]
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