As AI models continue to grow in size and complexity, chipmakers are shifting their ...

China’s researchers have built an optical interconnect system that dramatically speeds up distributed AI ...

The (above) figure shows how light is focused into a tiny processing unit, allowing vast strings of computational information to be transferred without the use of energy-intensive circuitry. The other ...

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As the realm of computing continues to evolve, the integration of optical technologies has emerged as a groundbreaking frontier, presenting new paradigms for processing and information transfer.

The computing world is on the cusp of a transformative leap forward, as researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have unveiled an all-optical computer capable of achieving clock ...

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 ...

The big picture: Intel has developed a fully integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet, which it compares to transitioning from horse-drawn carriages to cars and trucks in terms of data ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Sometimes classed as a Japanese startup, OptQC works with optical photonic technologies to develop a ...

The red light on your computer mouse is tied to how optical sensors read surfaces. It's also a cheap part that already does ...

Despite working in quantum computing for decades, Akira Furusawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan, has no idea what the quantum-computer era will look like. “It’s going to transform ...