Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

Researchers have developed an easy-to-use optical chip that can configure itself to achieve various functions. The positive real-valued matrix computation they have achieved gives the chip the ...

IBM today announced it had developed a prototype chip that could transmit up to 8 terabit/sec of information — equivalent to about 5,000 high-definition video streams — using the power of a single 100 ...

China’s latest optical AI chip is being pitched as a generational leap, with researchers claiming performance roughly 100 times faster than Nvidia’s A100 on specific workloads. The boast lands at a ...

Conceptual diagram of the self-calibrating integrated broadband PIC. Credit: Xingyuan Xu et al, Nature Photonics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-022-01020-z Research led by Monash and RMIT Universities in ...

In future high-tech industries, such as high-speed optical computing for massive AI, quantum cryptographic communication, and ultra-high-resolution augmented reality (AR) displays, nanolasers—which ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a new all-optical method for driving multiple highly dense nanolaser arrays. The approach could enable chip-based optical communication links that process and ...

Shanghai Jiao Tong University announced a breakthrough in computing power chips on Friday by introducing LightGen, an all-optical computing chip capable of running large-scale generative artificial ...

A standard digital camera used in a car for stuff like emergency braking has a perceptual latency of a hair above 20 milliseconds. That’s just the time needed for a camera to transform the photons ...