Lightelligence Touts Sub-Nanosecond Latency in Photonic Processor
Global – October 16, 2026 -- Lightelligence says its oMAC photonic computing processor cuts on-chip latency to below one nanosecond by processing data with light instead of electricity.
oMAC targets Moore's Law limits with photonic linear compute units
The company positions oMAC as a route past the single-chip performance limits of Moore's Law. The processor uses photonic linear compute units to accelerate linear operations, which it says delivers advantages in low latency and high throughput.
The processor sits within Lightelligence's proprietary optoelectronic hybrid computing architecture. The company says the architecture exploits the low latency, low power consumption and high throughput of light. It says it continues to raise the computing power limit of a single card through large-scale optoelectronic integration.