Neurophos T100 Optical Processing Unit

Neurophos, Inc. is a silicon photonics company based in Austin, Texas, with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California. It builds photonic chips around metamaterial optical modulators to run AI inference more efficiently than electronic GPUs.

Its T100 Optical Processing Unit uses photonic tensor cores for matrix multiplication and pairs with an electronic companion die for memory and I/O. A T100 Rack is also listed. According to Optics.org, customer evaluation is expected in 2026, with commercial systems and production ramp planned for 2028.

• T100 OPU: optical processing unit with photonic tensor cores for matrix multiplication.
• Metamaterial modulators: micron-scale optical modulators claimed to be about 10,000 times smaller.
• Companion electronic die: handles memory and I/O alongside the photonic compute.
• T100 Rack: rack-level product listed on the company site.
• Inference focus: designed for AI inference in data centers.

Hyperscale and national AI data centers can plan evaluation of OPU racks for large-scale inference. Vietnamese telecom and cloud operators can follow the roadmap for energy-efficient AI capacity.

Neurophos claims the T100 is 50x faster and 30x more energy efficient than the NVIDIA B200, and its CTO cites about 100x power-efficiency gains over leading GPUs; these are vendor claims. Micron-scale metamaterial modulators allow dense optical parallelism on one chip. Production capacity is allocated ahead of delivery.

Inference workloads are driving data center power demand, which creates interest in photonic accelerators. Commercial shipments are planned for 2028, so Vietnamese buyers are more likely to engage through technology scouting or pilot partnerships than purchases today.

Austin, Texas and Sunnyvale, California. 110 million USD Series A in January 2026 led by Gates Frontier with M12, Carbon Direct Capital, Aramco Ventures, Bosch Ventures and others; total funding 118 million USD. Opening an engineering site in San Francisco.