Computing is hitting a physical and economic wall just as generative artificial intelligence explodes in complexity and cost. The traditional trick of cramming more transistors onto silicon is running ...

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 ...

In the age of information, data processing and computation are essential. But current computation devices lack scalability and suffer from high carbon emissions. So researchers are constantly looking ...

China is accelerating efforts in optical computer chips to overcome chip restrictions and lead the next wave of AI innovation ...

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 ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The research, published in Nature Communications, addresses one of the key challenges to engineering computers that run on light ...

Founded in 2021, Virginia-based Procyon Photonics is a startup aiming to change the future of computing hardware with its focus on optical computing. What makes the company unique is that their entire ...

We always hear that future computers will use optical technology. But what will that look like for a general-purpose computer? German researchers explain it in a recent scientific paper. Although the ...

Researchers have developed a new optical computing material from photon avalanching nanoparticles. A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, ...

A breakthrough optical design allows quantum computers to read information in parallel, a key step toward building ...