Akhetonics gets fresh funding for a contrarian bet on alloptical chips | TechCrunch

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News Summary
- German startup Akhetonics aims to build a general-purpose chip
- It has raised a €6 million seed funding round (approximately $6
- 33 million) to deliver on this promise
- Photonics is a field that underpins light-based systems for manipulating data
- It could be particularly useful in environments that require high-performance in real time
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