By Mohamed Abdel-Kareem
Publication Date: 2026-04-23 19:01:00
Q.ANT, a Stuttgart-based developer of photonic computing hardware, has announced the opening of its U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas. To lead its North American operations and global technology strategy, the company has appointed semiconductor veteran Bruno Spruth as Chief Technology Officer. Spruth joins Q.ANT from IBM, where he recently served as Vice President of Power Processor Development, overseeing high-performance computing architectures.
The expansion aims to provide U.S. hyperscalers and data centers with an energy-efficient alternative to silicon-based accelerators. Q.ANT’s technology utilizes Native Processing Units (NPUs) built on a Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) platform. By executing mathematical operations directly in the optical domain, the company reports its processors can achieve up to 30 times the energy efficiency and 50 times the performance of conventional transistors for specific AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
