A team of Korean researchers has developed the world's first technology that can freely connect and disconnect core computing resources such as memory and accelerators with "light" in next-generation ...

Artificial intelligence, as it stands today, isn’t cheap. The leaders in the field are spending tens of billions of dollars on chips, data centers and more, running up steep losses so far. That has ...

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Researchers in China published a paper describing a theoretical model for photonic computing that used light particles instead of electrons for faster processing. The team developed “parallel optical ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists in China are suggesting a new model of computing that could massively shorten processing time—if it works, that is. To contextualize their ...

A US startup called Neurophos has announced a new kind of AI chip that uses light instead of electricity to process data. Backed by Bill Gates’ Gates Frontier Fund, the company says its optical ...

Researchers develop ultra-fine 3D printing tech for vertical nanolasers, enabling high-density optical chips for AI, AR displays, and secure communications. (Nanowerk News) In future high-tech ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...

A revolutionary AI chip from China just changed the game Developed by researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong and Tsinghua University, LightGen is an optical computing chip that’s over 100 times faster ...

Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...