Andrea Rocchetto is the co-founder and CEO of Ephos, the leading glass-based photonic chip manufacturer. Prior to founding Ephos, Andrea was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford.
Scientist: Andrea Rocchetto
Next generation (European) computing – novel hardware for AI and beyond
Usually, artificial intelligence news is about software: chatbots, AI artists, or even data analysis tools. All those applications need powerful computing hardware to run on, and that hardware uses a lot of energy. All of the websites we use every day rely on massive datacentres filled with thousands of computers to function. As the demand ...
Making light work – interview with Andrea Rocchetto, CEO of Ephos
Could you please introduce yourself and your company? Andrea Rocchetto: I am the cofounder and CEO of Ephos. We are a photonic chip manufacturing company. That means we build microchips that can process information that is encoded in particles of light, photons. What is the relationship between the photonic chips that you are building and ...