For Dr. Ko-Cheng Fang, the future of technology begins with a shift in perspective from asking how far existing systems can be improved to imagining what becomes possible when established boundaries are challenged. His journey reflects a belief that innovation is not confined to a single discipline or laboratory, but emerges at the intersection of science, creativity, art, intuition, and logical reasoning.
As computing moves beyond the traditional pursuit of smaller transistors toward innovative architectures and greater energy efficiency, Dr. Fang sees photonic computing as more than a technological breakthrough. To him, it represents a possibility to overcome fundamental limitations in conventional electronics while opening new pathways for the technologies of tomorrow.
Yet his vision extends beyond computing power. Whether imagining technologies that seem impossible today or exploring the connection between humanities, aesthetics, and engineering, he remains focused on one question: can an idea be transformed into something that genuinely improves human life?
This perspective has shaped his approach to innovation challenging established frameworks, integrating knowledge across disciplines, and looking beyond personal recognition toward technologies that can create lasting value for future generations.
From Silicon Limits to Photonic Possibilities
The founding vision behind LongServing Technology and Dr. Ko-Cheng Fang’s dedication to post-silicon technologies emerged from his recognition of the physical limitations confronting traditional silicon-based computing, coupled with a strong determination to develop technologies capable of creating meaningful change.
As semiconductor manufacturing advances toward the 1–2 nanometer era, Dr. Fang identified challenges such as quantum tunnelling, the memory wall, increasing power consumption, and heat dissipation as critical barriers to the continued evolution of conventional electronic chips. This led him to shift his focus from electronic materials toward light-based computing technologies. At the same time, the rapidly growing energy requirements of AI infrastructure reinforced his belief in the need for more efficient approaches to computing.
Drawing on his earlier experience in cybersecurity research and his determination to commercialise technologies ahead of their time, Dr. Fang developed X-Photon material, described as having an average wavelength of 2–3 nanometers, together with a novel photonic memory architecture. According to his vision, these technologies could enable significantly higher processing speeds while substantially reducing energy consumption. This ambition ultimately led to the founding of LongServing Technology, with the goal of advancing high-efficiency, low-energy, light-based computing.
In the age of artificial intelligence, Dr. Fang believes that the future of computing cannot depend solely on continuously shrinking transistors. Instead, the focus must increasingly move toward new architectures, efficient data processing, and innovative approaches to storing and transmitting information.
His proposed X-Photon photonic computing approach seeks to process and store data within the optical spectrum, reducing dependence on conventional electro-optical conversion. The objective is to address limitations associated with memory access, interconnect bandwidth, energy consumption, and heat generation. In his vision, such advances could help transform AI infrastructure from increasingly power-intensive systems into more energy-efficient and sustainable computing environments.
For Dr. Fang, however, deep technology cannot exist in isolation. The development of nanoscale semiconductor materials and photonic architectures must also be connected with environmental responsibility, humanities, and art. He views technological innovation as a means of addressing larger challenges facing humanity rather than as an achievement confined to laboratories or academic publications.
This broader perspective defines his approach to innovation: combining extreme engineering with creativity and a sense of responsibility toward society and the environment. His work seeks not only to push the boundaries of computing, but also to explore how technological breakthroughs can contribute to sustainable development, improve quality of life, and create long-term value for future generations.
A Journey of Challenging Limits Through Science, Creativity, and Cross-Disciplinary Thinking
LongServing Technology’s commitment to independence and cross-disciplinary integration is reflected in its emphasis on a self-directed R&D approach, comprehensive technology ecosystem integration, and flexible strategic planning. Together, these principles form an innovation model that differs from the conventional approach adopted by large-scale semiconductor companies.
From an R&D perspective, traditional semiconductor companies often focus on incremental improvements within established technological frameworks and depend heavily on expensive external equipment and mature industry ecosystems. LongServing Technology, by contrast, follows a philosophy of developing key technologies internally. The company’s approach encompasses the independent development of material formulations, chip designs, and photomasks, while seeking to reduce the boundaries between traditionally separate disciplines. This has led to an integrated architecture spanning X-Photon materials, photonic memory, and photoelectric conversion substrates.
The company also applies this cross-disciplinary philosophy to its industry ecosystem and strategic planning. While conventional semiconductor businesses often compete through significant capital investment in fabrication facilities, high energy consumption, and continued process miniaturisation, LongServing Technology seeks greater flexibility by combining advanced technology with areas such as artistic aesthetics, including laboratory-grown jadeite. Its introduction of a “Strategic Equity Hedging Agreement” and open collaboration model further reflects this approach. By leveraging existing electronic foundry manufacturing capabilities for photonic chip production, the company aims to balance commercialisation speed with long-term sustainability.
Looking back across his career, Dr Fang identifies several breakthroughs that, in his view, once appeared to challenge established technological possibilities.
One is the development of X-Photon material and photonic memory. When conventional silicon photonics appeared too large for the type of optical computing he envisioned, Dr. Fang pursued a different material approach. He developed what he describes as X-Photon material, with an average wavelength of 2–3 nanometers, and explored methods of controlling scattered light while developing a photonic memory architecture. According to his vision, these innovations could enable computing speeds thousands to tens of thousands of times higher than conventional approaches.
Another milestone he highlights is laboratory-grown Imperial Green Jadeite. Jadeite had long been regarded as a gemstone that could not be synthetically replicated. Dr. Fang returned to the laboratory challenge and, according to his account, developed a method for producing it, creating an intersection between deep technology and artistic aesthetics.
His earlier work in cybersecurity also forms an important part of his technological journey. He describes developing cloud-storage and password-lock security architectures before smartphones and cloud computing became mainstream. He further envisions future technologies such as anti-gravity hoverboards as part of his continuing effort to explore what he considers the frontiers of human innovation.
Underlying this approach is what Dr. Fang describes as a “sixth sense” for understanding material behaviour and photonic transmission pathways before experimental results are available. He attributes this intuition to years of cross-disciplinary learning and mental cultivation.
His study of Buddhist scriptures and practice of meditative concentration, according to his account, helped develop a highly focused state of mind and an ability to anticipate possible experimental outcomes. His early exposure to painting, sculpture, and Western art contributed to his sensitivity toward space, structure, light, and shadow. At the same time military history from Eastern and Western traditions strengthened his analytical thinking and ability to consider broader strategic possibilities.
For Dr. Fang, this intuition is not simply imagination. He sees it as the result of bringing together artistic sensitivity, meditative concentration, scientific curiosity, and logical reasoning a multidisciplinary perspective that continues to shape his approach to technology and innovation.
From Breakthrough to Responsibility: Building Technology for the Future
Dr. Fang describes LongServing Technology’s journey as one that extends beyond technological development into commercialisation, global ambition, and a broader sense of responsibility. According to his account, the company has already commercialised laboratory-grown Imperial Green Jadeite, while its global expansion remains at an early stage. Although LongServing Technology has yet to establish flagship stores or launch major advertising campaigns in international fashion and financial centres, Dr. Fang states that the technology has already received exposure through more than two hundred international publications.
He views laboratory-grown jadeite as a significant technological achievement. Natural jadeite has historically played an important role in Myanmar’s economy, while the gemstone remained, in his account, the only major gemstone among diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds without an established synthetic counterpart. Dr. Fang describes the successful development of laboratory-grown jadeite as an opportunity to combine advanced science with luxury, art, and global consumer culture.
The next phase of his vision is centred on scaling these technologies commercially. He describes plans to raise capital and pursue a public listing, using the coming years to expand the company’s market presence. Alongside the jadeite business, he envisions the development and commercial introduction of photonics cloud-computing centres, photonic CPUs, photonic memory, and photonic AI robotics.
His ambitions extend even further into technologies that challenge conventional expectations. Dr. Fang describes an anti-gravity hoverboard project that he hopes to reveal publicly in the future. He views such projects as part of a broader commitment to exploring technological possibilities that may initially appear beyond the boundaries of established thinking.
Yet beneath these ambitious projects lies a message he considers more important for the next generation of engineers, physicists, and researchers: deep technology must be guided by responsibility and long-term purpose.
Dr. Fang encourages young researchers not to become overly influenced by short-term market trends, fluctuations in capital, or immediate commercial opportunities. Instead, he believes innovation should remain focused on addressing challenges that humanity may face in the future. Technologies that fundamentally change industries often require years of development and may encounter skepticism or misunderstanding before their potential becomes visible.
For him, the responsibility of researchers extends beyond academic recognition or commercial success. It involves maintaining scientific discipline, embracing knowledge across disciplines, protecting intellectual property, managing confidential information responsibly, and considering the wider consequences of emerging technologies.
He believes that meaningful innovation requires patience and resilience the willingness to work through periods of uncertainty and stand behind an idea while it undergoes rigorous development and validation. Ultimately, his vision is for deep technology to transcend technological achievement itself: to improve quality of life, address resource and energy challenges, expand the boundaries of computing, and create lasting value for future generations.
In that sense, the journey is not simply about proving that something can be built. It is about asking what that breakthrough can contribute to humanity and whether it can leave behind something meaningful long after its creators have moved on.
Beyond the Hype: A Legacy Built on Persistence
For Dr. Fang, meaningful innovation begins by returning to the fundamentals. While markets can move quickly from one trend to another, he believes LongServing Technology must remain focused on technological substance rather than short-term hype. Instead of responding to skepticism through debate alone, he emphasises tangible evidence, including third-party laboratory verification, demonstrated production capabilities, publicly presented photonic architectures, and the transformation of advanced concepts into functional products.
His journey has also shaped a deeper understanding of what he considers the purpose of technological work. Years of confidentiality, isolation, experimentation, and returning to the laboratory have reinforced his belief that technologies ahead of their time can initially be accompanied by misunderstanding and solitude. Yet, he maintains that persistence in the right direction can eventually challenge established assumptions and push beyond perceived physical limitations.
When asked about the people behind LongServing Technology’s achievements, Dr. Fang describes himself as the primary force behind much of the company’s core technological development. According to his account, he has been closely involved in the conception, design, research, development, and validation of technologies including X-Photon materials, photonic chip architecture, photonic memory, and photoelectric conversion substrates.
This work reflects his strongly cross-disciplinary approach. Rather than limiting his research to one field, he has pursued knowledge across materials science, physics, electronic engineering, biotechnology, mathematics, art, and systems architecture. He believes that meaningful breakthroughs often emerge when insights from seemingly unrelated disciplines are brought together and viewed as parts of a larger technological framework.
Within this philosophy, photonic computing represents more than an advancement in processing capability. Dr. Fang sees it as an attempt to address fundamental limitations associated with conventional electronic computing, particularly the physical constraints surrounding energy consumption, data movement, and the memory wall. Behind the technology, he describes decades of individual perseverance, experimentation, and exploration—from the development of X-Photon materials to the pursuit of all-optical memory architectures.
Ultimately, Dr. Fang’s vision extends beyond a particular chip, material, or computing architecture. He believes technology should be judged by the problems it helps humanity solve: improving efficiency, strengthening information security, reducing resource demands, and contributing to a more sustainable future.
For him, the lasting measure of innovation is therefore not personal recognition or temporary wealth. It is whether an idea can become something that serves future generations. In that sense, technology becomes more than an invention—it becomes a reflection of human curiosity, perseverance, and the enduring desire to explore what lies beyond the boundaries of the possible.
Beyond Boundaries: Creativity, Curiosity and the Courage to Challenge the Impossible
For Dr. Fang, the relationship between technology, nature, and creativity extends far beyond conventional engineering. He describes his ongoing exploration of anti-gravity concepts and floating-metal technology as part of a larger ambition to rethink how humanity might move through the world imagining possibilities such as low-altitude travel over oceans, freer movement across mountains, and entirely new forms of transportation. He sees these ideas as an expression of his lifelong fascination with what technology might make possible.
His vision also extends to photonic computing. Alongside his experimental concepts, he points toward the future development and mass production of photonic memory and photonic CPUs, which he believes could significantly expand computing capabilities and support emerging technologies such as AI robotics and photonic quantum smartphones.
For Dr. Fang, technology is closely connected to art. He describes industrial design such as the curves, proportions, and colour combinations of a sports car—as an expression of human creativity. While AI can analyse vast amounts of data and reproduce patterns, he believes that human aesthetic intuition remains distinctive. His own journey across painting, sculpture, and technology reflects this conviction that creativity cannot be confined to one discipline.
This philosophy began with his approach to education. Rather than relying exclusively on conventional classroom learning, Dr. Fang describes himself as a self-directed learner who preferred exploring subjects independently and moving beyond prescribed academic boundaries. His curiosity led him across materials science, physics, electronic engineering, biotechnology, chemistry, mathematics, and the arts.
Art became another dimension of this exploration. He studied traditional Chinese meticulous painting before moving into watercolour, oil painting, sculpture, and mould-making. In technology, he followed a similar path crossing disciplinary boundaries whenever a question demanded knowledge from another field.
This willingness to cross boundaries has also shaped his attitude toward what is considered impossible. Rather than accepting a limitation simply because existing frameworks suggest that something cannot be achieved, he believes in testing the boundary personally. His work on anti-gravity technology, which he acknowledges is viewed skeptically by others, reflects this philosophy of questioning established assumptions. But this technology will ultimately become a reality, opening a new chapter in humanity’s exploration of the unknown.
For Dr. Fang, scientific progress has always depended on curiosity and the courage to challenge existing knowledge. What appears impossible within one generation may become achievable in another as new materials, architectures, discoveries, and ways of thinking emerge.
At the centre of this philosophy is creativity. He believes that his greatest influence has not come from one particular field, but from the ability to connect ideas across disciplines and continually explore the unknown. The satisfaction lies not simply in having an idea, but in pursuing it far enough to discover whether it can become reality.
That mindset also defines his approach to LongServing Technology. According to his account, the company has been developed through self-funded research while maintaining independent ownership. For him, external recognition is secondary to the ability to transform ideas into tangible technologies that can potentially shape the future.
Ultimately, Dr. Fang’s story is built around one central belief: boundaries should be investigated, not simply accepted. Whether through photonic computing, materials science, art, or experimental technologies, his journey reflects a persistent desire to ask what lies beyond what is currently known and then explore whether it can be made real.