Computing is hitting a physical and economic wall just as generative artificial intelligence explodes in complexity and cost.

A team of researchers developed “parallel optical matrix-matrix multiplication” (POMMM), which could revolutionize tensor ...

Researchers create a nanoscale light switch operating 10,000 times faster than electronic transistors, opening possibilities ...

A key problem facing artificial intelligence (AI) development is the vast amount of energy the technology requires, with some ...

Gates-backed silicon photonics startup unveils optical transistors 10,000× smaller and chips with 1,000× squared matrix compute potential.

Optical computing and logic circuits represent a transformative approach to information processing, utilising light rather than electrons to execute computational tasks. This paradigm leverages the ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

A new technical paper titled “High-clockrate free-space optical in-memory computing” was published by researchers at UC Berkeley, USC,  and TU Berlin. Abstract “The ability to process and act on data ...

Ternary optical computing systems represent an innovative leap beyond traditional binary computation by utilising three discrete logic states. This approach leverages the intrinsic advantages of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Every time you send a text message or browse the internet, your device processes information using tiny electronic switches that flip on and off millions of times per second. But ...

Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, and his team recently developed a new device that can accelerate and dramatically reduce the energy cost of AI computation, ...