Wednesday 1 July 2020, 07:34
In the past two decades, data traffic has increased to unexpected figures. Fotonic is presented as an aid to stimulate communication and part of a basis to change electrons into photons.
With a turn of 180 degrees, computers, tablets, mobile phones can work millions of times faster that would improve calculation and data transport speeds.
For years there are large companies such as IBM or Intel focused on this future market that promises spectacular and unprecedented performance. However, the important costs for developing this type of technology means that research in this area is currently limited to the major American and Chinese technology.
And since 2009, however, a spin -off from the Polytechnic University of Valencia has tried to democratize this technology and that has delivered him the title Pioneer subsidy in 2020 in the first edition of the Spinoff Prize, promoted by Nature Magazine and the multinational Merck.
Ipronics has been working for ten years to make commercially accessible and to democratize access to the immense computing power of photonics. After a few years of research carried out at the Photonics Research Labs of the Multimedia Telecommunications and Applications Institute, IPronics programmable photonic processors affect the market door that falls under the giants of the sector.
“In a few years, this product can be used by a user, regardless of whether or not you have technical knowledge,” says Ivana Gasulla, iPronics Information Director.
The Valencian Company solution lowers the costs by sharing a common reconfigurable software -hardware platform. With this solution the same hardware can be applied to an unlimited number of applications.
“The processors and chips based on electronic transistors are approaching the limits of their fundamental skills and the programmable photonics are the key to cope with low costs, the glory hunger of computing power that require many emerging applications,” says José Campany, COO of the company.
The approach led by this Spanish company “is called for the way in which the treatment treatment and processing systems have been conceived so far,” say those who are responsible.
The system designed by iPronics tries to collaborate with electronic systems and not compete with them. The disruptive character is added to this by breaking access and using barriers of photonic chips.
Artificial intelligence, autonomous cars, 5G communication, the interconnection of data centers, quantum computing and the internet of things are some of the photonic applications, “in a few years,” says Gasulla.
“In this global selection of Pioneer Technology Companies, a validation of the future potential of the programmable photonic processors of iPronics, faster, cheap and easy to use,” says Iñaki Berenguer, CO -founder and non -implementing president of iPronics.
