Q.ANT is a photonic deep-tech scale-up redefining computation through light. By replacing electronic transistors with photons, Q.ANT’s Light Empowered Native Arithmetics (LENA) architecture enables native, analog co-processing that delivers high computational density and dramatically improved energy efficiency for next-generation AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.

The company operates its own Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) chip pilot line in partnership with the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS), ensuring full-stack innovation from hardware design to system integration. Q.ANT is already shipping its Native Processing Servers to selected partners, marking a major step toward scalable, photonic-native computing.

Founded in 2018 by Michael Förtsch, Q.ANT is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, and continues to lead the way in the commercialization of photonic processing technologies.

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