Q.ANT is recognized as sample vendor for Photonic Computing in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Compute 2025, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Deep Technologies 2025 and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies 2025. 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.
“When new technologies make bold promises, how to discern the hype from what’s commercially viable? And when will such claims pay off, if at all? The Gartner® Hype Cycle™ provides a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities.
Gartner® Hype Cycle™ methodology gives you a view of how a technology or application will evolve over time, providing a sound source of insight to manage its deployment within the context of your specific business goals.”
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Gartner states that “Moore’s law is reaching its limits. This is driving the need for new technologies to address the ever-increasing demand for processing capability.”
According to Gartner “photonic computing can overcome limitations of traditional information processing and enable development of energy-efficient and high-performance supercomputing.”
Source: Gartner, Hype Cycle for Deep Technologies, 2024
Q.ANT’s photonic chips and processors address the escalating computational and energy demands in AI, HPC, and Next-Generation Computing.
By harnessing light’s native, inherent parallelism, we can access additional photonic dimensions, transcending 2-dimensional electronic grids. This approach, termed ‘Native Computing,’ is poised to redefine computing boundaries, enabling energy-efficient AI applications currently beyond reach.
Source: Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies 2025
With Photonic Computing, Q.ANT is acknowledged as Sample Vendor in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies 2025.
This Hype Cycle “examines a diverse array of innovations spanning tools, techniques, and technologies that can enable heads of infrastructure and operations to improve the efficiency, resilience and sustainability of their data center infrastructure.”
Source: Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies 2025
Learn more about how Photonic Computing can redefine computing boundaries, enabling energy-efficient and accelerated AI and HPC applications in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies 2025.
Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies 2025, Henrique Cecci, 30 June 2025
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