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May 12, 2026 · Industry Insights

Is the GPU Era Ending? Photonic Chips Deliver 50× Speedup with Near‑Zero Heat

The article examines how photonic AI accelerators from Q.ANT, now deployed in a German supercomputing center, achieve over 50‑fold throughput gains and dramatically lower power consumption, offering a potential solution to the mounting energy, heat, and memory‑wall challenges of GPU‑driven data centers.