Zhizi Guangyuan
智子光垣
Zhizi Guangyuan, founded in May 2026 in Minhang, Shanghai, builds photonic processors on a reconfigurable all-optical architecture with hybrid interference-diffraction computing.
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Zhizi Guangyuan, founded in May 2026 in Minhang, Shanghai, builds photonic processors on a reconfigurable all-optical architecture with hybrid interference-diffraction computing. It is developing a server-side opto-electronic accelerator card (OPU-08) and an edge optical computing chip (TOCU-07); first chips have been taped out, with a ~50-person R&D team.
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Investor· 7
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- 2026-11-03Seed
Investors · 海桐国际创新中心, Yunqi Partners, 国泰海通, 险峰长青, 原子创投, 同鑫资本, 上海交通大学AI未来基金Source · eu.36kr.com ↗
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