Neurophos Employee Directory

Neurophos is a private semiconductor company headquartered in Austin, Texas, founded in 2020. The company develops high-performance, energy-efficient photonic AI inference chips, known as optical processing units (OPUs), designed as a drop-in replacement for GPUs in data center environments. Its proprietary OPU architecture integrates over one mill... ion micron-scale optical processing elements on a single chip, leveraging metamaterials research and dynamic optical metasurface technology to perform massive matrix multiplications fully in-memory using light rather than electricity. The platform targets AI inference workloads and is designed to deliver up to 100x the performance and energy efficiency of conventional GPU-based processors. Neurophos serves engineering teams and compute-intensive applications requiring scalable AI inference capability, and offers datacenter-ready OPU modules alongside a full software stack. The company was co-founded by Dr. Patrick Bowen and Dr. Andrew Traverso, with a team drawing from NVIDIA, Apple, Samsung, Intel, AMD, Meta, and ARM.Read More