{"id":172974,"date":"2023-09-28T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/founded-in-2021-virginia-based-procyon-photonics-is-a-startup-aiming-to-change-the-future-of-computing-hardware-with-its-focus-on-optical-computing"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:26:11","slug":"founded-in-2021-virginia-based-procyon-photonics-is-a-startup-aiming-to-change-the-future-of-computing-hardware-with-its-focus-on-optical-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/founded-in-2021-virginia-based-procyon-photonics-is-a-startup-aiming-to-change-the-future-of-computing-hardware-with-its-focus-on-optical-computing","title":{"rendered":"Founded in 2021, Virginia-based Procyon Photonics is a startup aiming to change the future of computing hardware with its focus on optical computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/founded-in-2021-virginia-based-procyon-photonics-is-a-startup-aiming-to-change-the-future-of-computing-hardware-with-its-focus-on-optical-computing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2021, Virginia-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.procyonphotonics.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.procyonphotonics.org\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Procyon Photonics\">Procyon Photonics<\/a> is a startup aiming to change the future of computing hardware with its focus on optical computing. What makes the company unique is that their entire team consists of current high school students, and its co-founder, CEO, and CTO, Sathvik Redrouthu, holds the distinction of being the world\u2019s youngest CEO in the photonic and optical computing sector.<\/p>\n<p>Optical computing represents an innovative leap from traditional computing, which relies on electrons moving through wires and transistors. Instead, this relatively nascent field seeks to harness photons \u2014 particles of light \u2014 as the fundamental elements in computational processes. The promise of optical computing is compelling enough that industry giants like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ibm-is-using-light-instead-of-electricity-to-create-ultra-fast-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ibm-is-using-light-instead-of-electricity-to-create-ultra-fast-computing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"IBM\">IBM<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/microsofts-light-based-computer-marks-the-unravelling-of-moores-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/microsofts-light-based-computer-marks-the-unravelling-of-moores-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a>, among others, are heavily investing in its research and development.<\/p>\n<p>Procyon is attempting to differentiate itself in this competitive landscape not just by its youth, but with their technology. The team is pioneering a unique, industry-leading optical chip, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-031-37717-4_3\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-031-37717-4_3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"published a conference paper\">published a conference paper<\/a> detailing how a specialized form of matrix algebra could be executed on an optoelectronic chip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 2021, Virginia-based Procyon Photonics is a startup aiming to change the future of computing hardware with its focus on optical computing. What makes the company unique is that their entire team consists of current high school students, and its co-founder, CEO, and CTO, Sathvik Redrouthu, holds the distinction of being the world\u2019s youngest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}