Traditional processors from the likes of Intel, AMD, or Nvidia have well-known limitations around speed, energy efficiency, and electromagnetic interference. For instance, foundational chip makers ...

“Energy efficiency of electronic digital processors is primarily limited by the energy consumption of electronic communication and interconnects. The industry is almost unanimously pushing towards ...

Intel says its work on switching from copper I/O to optical fiber has taken a big step forward in high-speed data transmission. At this year's Optical Fiber Communication Conference in San Francisco, ...

Startup Akhetonics GmbH has raised €6 million in funding for its optical chip technology, which can perform digital, analog and quantum computations in the same system. TechCrunch reported the ...

As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become extremely challenging to manage the finite amount of wireless spectrum ...

a) Conceptual diagram of the on-chip optical processor used for optical switching and channel decoder in an MDM optical communications system. (b) Integrated reconfigurable optical processor schematic ...

A new technical paper titled “Massively parallel and universal approximation of nonlinear functions using diffractive processors” was published by researchers at UCLA. “Nonlinear computation is ...

UCLA researchers have conducted an in-depth analysis of nonlinear information encoding strategies for diffractive optical processors, offering new insights into their performance and utility. Their ...

Lumai, a spin out from the University of Oxford, was founded by a team with expertise in optics over two years ago, aiming to develop a new type of AI processor. During Computex 2024, Lumai joined the ...

New processor uses light instead of electrons to calculate and transfer data, enabling energy savings and dramatically faster compute Lightmatter, a leader in silicon photonics processors, announced ...