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

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 ...

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 for ultrafast computing, optical ...

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

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

Semiconductor chips that process light rather than electricity could boost processing speeds and reduce energy use.

Engineers have developed a multifunctional, reconfigurable component for an optical computing system that could be a game changer in electronics. As fast as modern electronics have become, they could ...

Optical logic gates represent a cutting‐edge approach to perform computation entirely with light, bypassing the limitations inherent to electronic components. By exploiting light’s phase, intensity, ...

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 ...

Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, and his team recently developed a new device that ...