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

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

“Energy efficiency of electronic digital processors is primarily limited by the energy consumption of electronic communication and interconnects. The industry is almost unanimously pushing towards ...

You know, data centers are getting pretty wild these days, especially with all this AI stuff exploding. For a long time, we’ve been stuck with old copper wires, and they just can’t keep up anymore. It ...

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 ...

Barclays has entered a joint development agreement with Microsoft to explore an application for an optical computer that has already outperformed a quantum computer by two orders of magnitude. In ...

(Nanowerk News) By studying the theoretical limits of how light can be used to perform computation, Cornell researchers have uncovered new insights and strategies for designing energy-efficient ...

NTT and OptQC aim to build a 1-million qubit quantum computer based on light, rather than electricity, to enhance reliability, scalability and practicality. Use cases for a practical optical quantum ...