Supercomputing 2025

Meet Q.ANT at SC 2025

America’s Center, Booth 535 
16-21 November 2025 in St. Louis, USA

The future of efficient HPC is here. Will your data center be a part of it?

Photonic Computing performs, where existing computing technologies fail – by tackling the rising need for computing power due to surging AI workloads, density constraints in data centers and ever increasing energy consumption due to heavy cooling.

Experience our first commercial photonic analog processor, the Native Processing Server (NPS), promising unprecedented energy and cost efficiency for AI and HPC – live at the stand of our project partner LRZ: Booth 535

This is your chance to lead your data center into the future of efficient computing and define the competitive edge of tomorrow.

Photonic Computing reshapes the next generation compute ecosystem

Q.ANT develops photonic analog processors which use light instead of electrons to process information delivering unprecedented efficiency for AI and High Performance Computing. Q.ANT’s photonic approach promises a paradigm shift in computing through more energy efficient calculations compared to existing processor technologies and increased data center capacity driven by higher computational density for:

Meet the global HPC community at Supercomputing 2025

Supercomputing 2025 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis bringing together an unparalleled mix of thousands of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, and developers who intermingle to learn, share, and grow.

Q.ANT in the Media

Elektronik Praxis

Hendrik Haerter interviews Michael Foertsch on the implications the new photonic processors will have on HPC and AI datacenters.

New Electronics

Q.ANT delivered its Native Processing Server (NPS) to the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), offering a path toward significantly higher performance with drastically lower energy consumption for AI applications.

Startup Insider

In their podcast Till Stenzel from SET Ventures and Yann Fiebig from HTGF discuss the meaning of the € 62 million series A funding round of Q.ANT.

Tagesthemen

The German national news outlet “Tagesschau” reported in its format “Tagesthemen” about Q.ANT’s world’s first deployment of a photonic AI processor into a supercomputing center, the Leibniz Rechenzentrum (LRZ) in Munich.

Tech Funding News

Sofia Chesnokova digs into the €62 million funding for Q.ANT, Europe’s biggest investment round in photonic computing, and what this means for the company and the future of analog photonic computing in AI and HPC datacenters.

EENews Europe

Nick Flaherty reports on how Q.ANT has delivered its Native Processing Server (NPS) to the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), marking the first integration of an analog photonic co-processor into an operational high-performance computing (HPC) environment.

Optics & Photonics News

“For the first time, light-based processors are being evaluated in a real HPC environment under practical workloads” as explained by Dr Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.ANT with regards to a German Supercomputing Center deploying a photonic AI processor for the first time worldwide.

All About Circuits

What if the future of AI computing wasn’t electric at all? This is the question “All About Circuit” raises as it covers Q.ANT’s world’s first photonic AI processor deployment to a supercomputing facility, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ).

Elektronik Praxis

In this very in depth article in German, the authors Filipe Pereira Martins und Anna Kobylinska give a deep insight on the photonic AI accelerator, its advantages as well as the technologies and materials it is based on.

Anastasi in Tech

In an interview with Techexplorer Anastasi In Tech, Michael Förtsch explains how Q.ANT’s revolutionary light-based processor could transform the future of AI data centers.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, FAZ

We are challenging nothing less than the status quo’ – The FAZ writes about the “superchip from Europe” and why it could turn the industry upside down.

EETimes

In EE Times, Sally Ward-Foxton explains how Q.ANT’s launch of a photonic AI chip pilot line using lithium niobate (TFLN) boosts semiconductor sustainability and strengthens Europe’s computing independence.

WiWo Chefgespräch Podcast

“We are breaking through the narrative that you have to invest billions in new factories in order to produce cutting-edge technology.” Michael Förtsch explains the impact of Q.ANT’s technology on European tech sovereignty in the Wirtschaftswoche podcast.

Markt&Technik / Elektroniknet

Why is Q.ANT building its own pilot line and what opportunity does it offer for Europe? Michael Förtsch explains in an interview with Heinz Arnold from Markt&Technik.

Photonics Spectra

Photonics Spectra highlights how Q.ANT’s photonic AI chip pilot line, using lithium niobate creates a blueprint for cost-effectively modernizing chip production worldwide.

EENews Europe

In a feature by eeNews Europe, Peter Clarke reports how Q.ANT’s new pilot line could accelerate optical chip production for more efficient AI processing in Europe.

The Ojo-Yoshida Report

In an interview with Junko Yoshida from Ojo-Yoshida Report, Michael Förtsch explains why photonic computing could be the key to solving AI’s growing energy consumption challenge in data centers.

Embedded

In an interview with Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio from Embedded Edge, Michael Förtsch discusses how photonic computing is paving the way for more efficient and sustainable AI systems.

EENews Europe

In an interview with Peter Clarke from eeNews Europe, Michael Förtsch details how Q.ANT’s new lithium niobate processor achieves 30x efficiency improvements over traditional GPUs through analog optical computing.