Neurophos Claims OPU Outperforms Nvidia Vera Rubin
Neurophos, an Austin-based AI chip startup backed by Bill Gates’ Gates Frontier Fund, says it built an optical processing unit (OPU) named Tulkas T100 that delivers ten times the FP4/INT4 compute of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 while using comparable power. The company attributes the improvement to a 1,000×1,000 photonic sensor, miniaturized optical transistors and a 56 GHz operating clock, enabling higher compute density per die.
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