{"version":"1","article":{"id":"pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026","slug":"pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026","language":"en","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026?lang=en","title":"Preferred Networks and Tenstorrent selected for five-year AI processor research","summary":"Japan’s NEDO selected Preferred Networks and Tenstorrent for a joint xPU design project incorporating photonics-electronics integration. Their five-year research programme targets processor systems for training and inference across scientific, physical and agentic AI workloads.","category":"business","region":"world","topics":["ai","semiconductors"],"published_at":"2026-10-20T19:09:32+03:00","modified_at":"2026-10-20T19:09:32+03:00","publication_basis":"publication-record","event_period":"2026-10-20","event_period_basis":"event-or-reference-period","sources":[{"name":"Preferred Networks","url":"https://www.preferred.jp/en/news/pr20261020","publishedAt":"2026-10-20","checkedAt":"2026-10-20"}],"translations":[{"language":"tr","url":"https://haberpaper.com/tr/news/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026?lang=tr"},{"language":"en","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026?lang=en"},{"language":"ar","url":"https://haberpaper.com/ar/news/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026?lang=ar"},{"language":"fr","url":"https://haberpaper.com/fr/news/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026?lang=fr"},{"language":"es","url":"https://haberpaper.com/es/news/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/pfn-tenstorrent-nedo-photonic-xpu-research-2026?lang=es"}],"data_types":[],"data":null,"data_compilations":[],"data_downloads":[],"content":{"paragraphs":["Japan’s NEDO selected Preferred Networks and Tenstorrent for a joint xPU design project incorporating photonics-electronics integration. Their five-year research programme targets processor systems for training and inference across scientific, physical and agentic AI workloads.","The announced work divides into system integration and packaging, AI chiplets using stacked memory (led by PFN), and open-architecture CPU chiplets supporting confidential computing (led by Tenstorrent). Commercialization is a later aim, not a current product launch."],"key_points":[],"sections":[]},"text":"Japan’s NEDO selected Preferred Networks and Tenstorrent for a joint xPU design project incorporating photonics-electronics integration. Their five-year research programme targets processor systems for training and inference across scientific, physical and agentic AI workloads.\n\nJapan’s NEDO selected Preferred Networks and Tenstorrent for a joint xPU design project incorporating photonics-electronics integration. Their five-year research programme targets processor systems for training and inference across scientific, physical and agentic AI workloads.\n\nThe announced work divides into system integration and packaging, AI chiplets using stacked memory (led by PFN), and open-architecture CPU chiplets supporting confidential computing (led by Tenstorrent). Commercialization is a later aim, not a current product launch.","corrections":[],"editorial_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"business","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/business-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic industrial workshop with machinery, a warehouse and a crane.","language":"en"},"section_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"business","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/business-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic industrial workshop with machinery, a warehouse and a crane.","language":"en"}}}