Photonics News
Latest Photonics news and analysis — 19 articles tagged Photonics on The Robotics Media.
- Crypto4A's QASM Becomes First Quantum-Safe HSM Validated To FIPS 140-3 Level 3 — — Ottawa-based Crypto4A said on August 20, 2026 that its patented QASM cryptographic module has become the world's first quantum-safe hardware security...
- TuringQ Files For A-Share IPO In China's Quantum Race — — Shanghai-based photonic quantum computing company TuringQ has filed for an A-share IPO with Guotai Haitong Securities as tutor, aiming to become the f...
- Olix Nets $312M At $3.3B To Ditch HBM With Photonic AI Chips — — London-based Olix raised a $312M Series B at a $3.3B valuation to build photonic-interconnect AI inference chips that bypass HBM, backed by Arm, Hudso...
- Quantum Optics Jena's ELVIS Becomes First QKD System To Pass ISO/IEC 23837 Audit — — Quantum Optics Jena's ELVIS platform passed a three-month TUViT evaluation under ISO/IEC 23837, becoming the first commercial QKD system to survive an...
- Quantinuum To Post First Quarterly Earnings As Public Company On Aug 11 — — Quantinuum will report its first-ever quarterly results as a public company after the bell on August 11, giving investors their initial look at commer...
- Qunnect And Monarch Quantum Team To Shrink Entanglement Hardware To Rack Units — — Qunnect and San Diego's Monarch Quantum announced a partnership on August 10 to combine Qunnect's Carina entanglement platform with Monarch's integrat...
- Lumilens Exits Stealth With $700M Series C to Rewire AI Data Centers With Light — — San Jose silicon-photonics startup Lumilens emerged from stealth on August 6, 2026 with over $700 million in Series C funding at a $5.51 billion valua...
- IonQ Posts Record $80M Q2 Revenue, Raises 2026 Outlook — — Trapped-ion quantum leader IonQ reported record Q2 revenue of $80.1 million, up 287% year-over-year, and closed its $1.8B SkyWater acquisition alongsi...
- Eliyan Becomes Unicorn With $145M Series C for AI Optical Interconnects — — Eliyan closed a $145M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Seligman Ventures, with Cisco and Lumentum joining, to expand its chiplet-interconnect and el...
- OptQC and NTT Sign Capital Alliance to Build 1M-Qubit Optical Quantum Computer — — OptQC and NTT have signed a capital and business alliance to co-develop a fault-tolerant, one-million-qubit-class optical quantum computer by FY2030,...
- Digital Catapult And NQCC Pick 11 Firms For Third QTAP Quantum Cohort — — Digital Catapult and the National Quantum Computing Centre have selected 11 organisations for the third QTAP cohort, including NatWest, RSSB and Healt...
- PsiQuantum Signs $125M Expanded DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Deal — — PsiQuantum signs a $125M performance-based tasking with DARPA under the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, its largest U.S. government award to date and...
- Photon Queue Wins $500K To Open Room-Temperature Quantum Memory Line In Albuquerque — — UIUC spinout Photon Queue has secured a $500,000 expansion package from the New Mexico Economic Development Department and Roadrunner Venture Studios...
- Aliro And Cisco Run Live Entanglement QKD On Production 8000 Routers — — Aliro Quantum, Italian startup zerothird and Cisco demonstrated an entanglement-based quantum key distribution network operating on production Cisco 8...
- PsiQuantum Bets 100 Cabinets Of Photons Will Beat The Quantum Race — — MIT Technology Review's deep look at PsiQuantum lays out how the company plans to line up 100 refrigerated cabinets of photonic chips into the first u...
- QuiX Quantum Unveils Carina, First Universal Photonic Quantum Computer For Data Centers — — Dutch-German QuiX Quantum has delivered Carina, the world's first universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for customer data-center...
- Diraq Scales Silicon Spin Qubits To Eight On imec's 300mm CMOS Line — — Diraq and imec reported the first eight-qubit silicon-spin array built on a 300 mm CMOS foundry line, a 4x jump in array size in under a year with coh...
- Oratomic Raises $300M Series A To Build 20,000-Qubit Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer — — Caltech spinout Oratomic banked a $300M Series A co-led by ARCH, Spark and Khosla to build the first utility-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer wit...
- Tower and Marvell Ship 5 Million Photonic Chips for AI — — Tower Semiconductor and Marvell have shipped over five million coherent photonic integrated circuits, scaling optical connectivity for bandwidth-hungr...