Q.ANT CEO Michael Förtsch argues that photonic computing is ready for practical deployment as a coprocessor. The company’s NPU is designed to sit on PCI Express and work alongside CPUs and GPUs, targeting nonlinear functions and data-reduction algorithms where CMOS is less efficient. Förtsch says Q.ANT already has commercial HPC deployments, cloud access through IONOS, and a roadmap built around faster processors, richer software support, and broader developer adoption.