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Q/C Technologies Announces Research Collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories, a $5 Billion U.S. Department of Energy Lab

Globe Newswire•30/09/2026•08:45 ET
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Key Highlights

  • ➤Q/C Technologies (QCLS) announces collaboration with Sandia’s CINT on optical AI hardware
  • ➤Research targets nanophotonic components for scalable optical processing units
  • ➤Project addresses nonlinear operations, memory, precision, optical loss and electronic integration
  • ➤Q/C Technologies (QCLS) recently established a 4,800-square-foot integrated photonics laboratory

Expert Statements

Joshua Silverman, Executive Chairman of Q/C Technologies

“Access to CINT’s scientific expertise and advanced research capabilities in photonics and nanoscale technologies represents an important step as we develop our proprietary optical computing platform.”

Joshua Silverman, Executive Chairman of Q/C Technologies

“As AI infrastructure faces increasing constraints in power consumption, bandwidth and scalability, we believe optical computing has the potential to fundamentally change how computationally intensive AI workloads are processed.”

Joshua Silverman, Executive Chairman of Q/C Technologies

“This collaboration will help us evaluate key architectural concepts as we continue building the foundation for our next-generation optical computing solution.”

Yossef Ehrlichman, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer at Q/C Technologies

“This collaboration provides an opportunity to accelerate our work toward a practical, scalable optical computing architecture.”

Yossef Ehrlichman, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer at Q/C Technologies

“We believe this work with CINT will help us define the pathway from fundamental optical capabilities to an integrated OPU architecture.”

Collaboration advances Q/C Technologies’ optical processing unit initiative for AI inference through nanophotonics research at Sandia’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Q/C Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: QCLS) (“Q/C Technologies” or “the Company”), a developer of next-generation optical computing solutions, today announced a collaboration with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Sandia National Laboratories (“Sandia”) to advance its proprietary optical processing unit (OPU) initiative for artificial intelligence inference. The Company is pioneering next-generation optical computing solutions designed to harness the properties of light to perform complex computations naturally via interference.

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