Akhetonics gets fresh funding for a contrarian bet on alloptical chips | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- German startup Akhetonics has raised a €6 million seed funding round (approximately $6
- 33 million) It's aiming to build a general-purpose chip that could be used for all sorts of tasks and software applications
- The company is taking an all-optical approach that will also be digital and compatible with existing workloads
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