Lightstandard
光本位科技
LightStandard (光本位) is a Chinese photonic computing chip startup developing optoelectronic fused computing cards and systems for large AI models and intelligent computing centers. Founded by CEO Cheng Tangsheng (程唐盛) and a co-founder who met him in middle school, the company builds on silicon photonics plus phase-change material heterointegration and Crossbar photonic matrix structures, with a stated mission to "construct a new AI computing paradigm with light as the standard" . The team produced what is described as the world's first 128×128 optical computing chip within three years and has secured commercial orders .
Yunqi Capital (云启资本) invested in LightStandard at the angel-plus round, while FreeS Capital (峰瑞资本) also appears as an early backer, with mentions across multiple portfolio updates from 2024 to 2025 . In FreeS's 2026 framing, LightStandard sits alongside Lightelligence (曦智科技) as a core player in China's photonic computing and optical interconnect chip landscape .
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A Deep Dive into 70 Years of Optical Computing: What New Breakthroughs Await Beyond Moore's Law? | Yunqi Science --- In 1965, Gordon Moore, then director of the R&D laboratory at Fairchild Semiconductor, published an article in *Electronics* magazine titled "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits." In it, he made a bold prediction: the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double approximately every year, with computing power growing exponentially while costs declined. This observation, later refined to a doubling every 18–24 months, became the famous "Moore's Law" that has driven the semiconductor industry for nearly six decades. However, as transistor sizes approach the atomic scale, the physical limits of silicon-based electronic computing are becoming increasingly apparent. Heat dissipation, quantum tunneling effects, and manufacturing costs are all pushing traditional computing toward a wall. In this context, optical computing — using photons instead of electrons as information carriers — has emerged as one of the most promising paths beyond Moore's Law. This article traces 70 years of optical computing development, examining its technical principles, key breakthroughs, and the new frontiers it may open in the post-Moore era. ## The Physical Advantages of Photons Why light? The answer lies
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