"Specifically, Luminous is actively recruiting photonics designers, digital and analog VLSI engineers, packaging and system integration engineers, and machine learning experts,” announced the firm earlier this month, adding that it was building nearly every part of the technology from the ground up.Ĭommenting on Hochberg’s influence, Gomez said: “Nearly everyone in the silicon photonics industry can trace their work back in some way, shape or form to the foundational work Michael has led over the past two decades.
Hochberg will head up an engineering team looking to solve that hardware challenge using silicon photonics, and the series A funding just announced will be used to double the size of the Luminous engineering team.
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Hochberg, who founded ventures including Luxtera - now part of Cisco Systems, and Elenion - since acquired by Nokia - joins Luminous just a couple of weeks after the Mountain View firm emerged from stealth mode with news of a $105 million funding round supported by Bill Gates and Gigafund, among others.Īccording to Luminous’ co-founder and CEO Marcus Gomez, while the computing industry has now developed the software required for artificial intelligence (AI), the hardware needed to run the necessary algorithms simply isn’t yet available. Luminous Computing, a Silicon Valley startup developing a radical supercomputer design based on photonics technology, has hired the silicon photonics expert Michael Hochberg as its company president, and to head up its engineering and operations activities. Luxtera founder to run engineering effort at company working on an optics-based supercomputer. Silicon photonics pioneer Hochberg joins Luminous Computing
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