Penn Engineers have developed the first programmable chip that can train nonlinear neural networks using light—a breakthrough ...

A tech firm has just demonstrated that a computer chip using light and the speed at which it moves for processing handles ...

A cutting-edge AI acceleration platform powered by light rather than electricity could revolutionize how AI is trained and ...

One study used an optical chip to play Pac-Man and generate text ... could be a much simpler way to increase processing power. As light moves quickly and efficiently through a light-based circuit ...

However, converting photons into electrical signals can slow down processing times since light operates at higher speeds.

Described in Nature Photonics, the chip reshapes how light behaves to carry out the nonlinear mathematics ... but used fewer operations, and did not need power-hungry electronic components. In one ...

Scientists have taken a big step toward making faster and more energy-efficient computers by combining light and electricity ...

Silicon Valley startup Lightmatter revealed on Wednesday it had developed a new type of computer chip that could both speed ...

Researchers have developed a new superior hardware platform for AI accelerators using photonic integrated circuits on silicon ...

Computers that use photons rather than electrons to manipulate data promise greater speed and energy efficiency, and the ...

Taichi has demonstrated high efficiency and complex AI task handling, using a novel hybrid optical approach to overcome ...