Government & sovereign
We work with federal research programs, state energy and planning offices, national governments, and defense organizations on measurement, siting, licensing, and domestic production.
Programs
Testbed and measurement programs with national laboratory and agency partners. The central measurement is energy to solution at equal throughput.
EngagedBriefings for governors' offices, energy administrations, and planning commissions on what a photonic facility puts on the grid and what it does not.
BriefingNational compute programs, technology licensing, and build-operate-transfer structures, including fabrication inside a partner's own borders.
In discussionCapability briefings across the services and the defense industrial base, on power, thermal budget, and mass at the edge.
EngagedFounding positions for energy and infrastructure operators building photonic capacity alongside us.
OpenFounding positions are open now to energy and infrastructure operators who want to build photonic capacity alongside us. Write directly and tell us what you operate and where.
The supply chain argument
Advanced-node semiconductor capacity is concentrated in a handful of facilities, costs twenty to thirty billion dollars per fab, and sits inside an export control regime that governs who may buy what and where it may be produced.
We fabricate at 90 to 180 nanometers. Capacity at those nodes is abundant, largely depreciated, distributed across many countries, frequently underutilized, and outside those controls. For the United States that means existing domestic capacity can be brought to bear without waiting on a new leading-edge fab. For allied and partner nations it means a fabrication path that can run inside their own borders.
The strategic question about compute has usually been asked as a question about chips. It is at least as much a question about the electricity and water a facility needs, and where a country is willing to put them.
Licensing structure