The AI Infrastructure Stack
Overview  /  Tier IV Compute Hardware  /  Layer 08: Accelerators — GPUs & ASICs
Sub-category 8.7

Photonic & Analog Compute

Long-shot architectures using light or analog electronics for matrix multiplication. Mostly research stage with first products shipping now.

Players

Players: Lightmatter Private, Ayar Labs Private, Celestial AI Private, Salience Labs Private, Mythic Private, EnCharge AI Private, Rain AI Private, PsiQuantum (quantum, very long-dated) Private

Analysis coming soon — this page is scaffolding for deeper research into photonic & analog compute.