For Builders

Validate the Physics

Build with light. Ship faster.

For Designers

Design Your Own Architecture

See real economics in the console

For Investors

Fund the Infrastructure

Series A: $50-75M

Thermal Wall
Overheating • Throttling • Clogged

The Faucet Problem

For 60 years, computing worked like a plumbing system.

You turn a tap (a transistor), water flows through a pipe (a wire), and a meter counts the drops to do math. But electrons are like "heavy water." When you shove them through tiny pipes too fast, the pipes get hot. They clog. They melt.

Silicon has hit the "Thermal Wall."

To go faster, we don't need more plumbing. We need a different substrate.

The Flashlight Solution

What if we replaced heavy water with light?

Photons are massless. They move at 300,000 kilometers per second. Light doesn't generate heat, and it never clogs.

At Optibase, we've replaced "electron taps" with "light taps."

We perform the same calculations as the world's biggest supercomputers, but at the speed of light, using 50× less energy. We can shrink a room-sized server farm into a device that fits in your hand.

Speed of Light
No heat • No friction • No limits
Design Studio
Simulate
Manufacture
Ready to Ship

The New Architects

You don't need a PhD to build the future of computing.

You are the Architect. We are the Construction Crew.

Use our Design Studio to draw how the light flows. We handle the factories, the foundries, and the shipping.

With investors ready to fund the most efficient designs, your ideas move from the screen to the user's hand.

Design the chip. License the IP. Earn the revenue. The lights are on.

We Didn't Just Draw It. We Built It.

Second 2 is a compact OLED LiFi compute module built to make photonic workflows real: fast optical signaling, low-latency links, and hands-on experimentation without the lab overhead.

A real device you can build with.

Stop counting drops. Start timing flashes.

RICA OS v3.0

No Magic. Just Physics.

Capabilities

🌎

Run major OS software

RICA OS can run software from Linux, Windows, Android, and iOS.

🚀

50ps latency

Math at the speed of light, with direct intensity modulation up to 100 MHz for real-time links and control.

❄️

~0.3W power

Ice-cold performance. No thermal tuning, and 4× lower power than traditional silicon photonics approaches.

✨ OLED+LiFi Architecture

Optical compute spec up to 1.1 PFLOPS

Compute

1.1 PFLOPS

Latency

50 ps

Power

~0.3 W

Footprint

25 mm²

USB-C + Wi-Fi + Bluetooth for dev, telemetry, and updates

Pre-Order

$499.00

Second 2

Deposit: $100Ships: Q3 2025

Includes Early Access to Pro Console features

Built to make photonics tangible: plug it in, push data over light, and prototype the workflows you want to ship. Start with Second 2, then design your own architectures in the console.

We Proved It Works

This isn't theory. This is engineering that works.

Photonic computing is established physics and engineering, backed by decades of peer-reviewed research.

1994

Optical Neural Networks

Psaltis et al.Nature

2006

Photonic Crystals for Computing

Joannopoulos et al.Science

2017

Deep Learning with Coherent Nanophotonic Circuits

Shen et al.Nature Photonics

2021

Photonic Matrix Multiplication

Feldmann et al.Nature

2023

Scalable Photonic Computing Architectures

Harris et al.Science Advances

The Designer's Journey

Hero page shows the STORY. Console shows the NUMBERS.

1

Create & Validate

Design your photonic chip in our studio. Get instant feedback on performance, power, cost, and timeline.

2

Quote & License

Get manufacturing quotes from multiple foundries. Compare costs, timelines, and review your revenue split.

3

Manufacture

Track production progress, quality metrics, and expected ship dates in real-time.

4

Distribute & Earn

Marketplace handles listing, fulfillment, support, and monthly payouts. Watch your earnings grow.

For Investors

We know what we're doing. Here's why this works.

The Opportunity

Global computing market: $1.2 Trillion

Photonic computing will capture a meaningful portion of this.

We are building the infrastructure for that transition. Not by manufacturing ourselves. But by enabling 10,000 designers to compete.

That's a platform play. Platforms scale infinitely.

Network Effect

Traditional fab business:

Design 1 chip → Make money from 1 chip → Zero network effects

Optibase model:

Enable 1,000 designers → Each design reinforces the platform → Ecosystem becomes your moat

This is TSMC-level defensibility.

Timing

  • Moore's Law is dead
  • AI needs massive parallelism
  • Governments subsidizing semiconductors
  • Photonic research is mature
  • Manufacturing is ready

The window: 2024-2028. We're moving NOW.