Optimus photonic neuromorphic chip surfaces

- Recent social posts claim Tesla/Optimus vision will use a photonic neuromorphic accelerator and a compute-in-memory 'Thus' chip to slash latency and energy for vision inference. (x.com) - The posts put energy efficiency at under 1 picojoule per MAC for the photonic design and emphasize the 'Thus' chip’s latency and power reductions for autonomy workloads. (x.com) - Those architectural claims, paired with Terafab fabrication leaks, suggest a vertically integrated push to build custom inference silicon for Optimus and other autonomy systems. (x.com 1) (x.com 2)