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PsiQuantum  Updated 2025-04-24  +Created 1970-01-01

CEO: Jeremy O'Brien

Raised 215M in 2020: www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-06/quantum-computing-startup-raises-215-million-for-faster-device

Good talk by CEO before starting the company which gives insight on what they are very likely doing: Video "Jeremy O'Brien: "Quantum Technologies" by GoogleTechTalks (2014)"

PsiQuantum appears to be particularly secretive, even more than other startups in the field.

They want to reuse classical semiconductor fabrication technologies, notably they have close ties to GlobalFoundries.

So he went to the US and raised N times more from the American military-industrial complex.

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Silicon photonics  Updated 2025-04-24  +Created 1970-01-01

Silicon Photonics: The Next Silicon Revolution? by Asianometry (2022)

youtu.be/29aTqLvRia8?t=714 GlobalFoundries seems to be one of the leaders at the time. E.g. quantum computing company PsiQuantum uses them. Part of this was from acquiring IBM's microelectronics division in 2014.

Running Neural Networks on Meshes of Light by Asianometry (2022)

youtu.be/t0yj4hBDUsc?t=440 block diagram
youtu.be/t0yj4hBDUsc?t=456 Lightmatter lightmatter.co/ seems to be using an in-silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer to do analog matrix multiplication with light. It is an actual analog computer element!

Silicon Photonics for Extreme Computing by Keren Bergman (2017)

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