In the run up to Embedded World, perhaps the premier event for silicon hype, a raft of announcements caught Wireless Watch’s eye. Last week, it was BrainChip’s neuromorphic brain-like designs, and this week, we are diving into iPronics’ photonic microchips – which have just started shipping to customers. iPronics is based in Valencia, Spain, and was founded in 2019. It has been plugging away at designing chips that use photons of light, rather than electrons of electricity, to create the required integrated circuits for a functional processor. Unsurprisingly, fiber optic communication and lasers are major draws for photonic chips, and a recent unrelated test at the University of Denmark in Copenhagen demonstrated a 1.84 petabit (Pbps) throughput in a single…