New initiative aimed at developing optical computing technologies to overcome the performance and energy limitations of traditional electronic ...

MOSAIC ditches lasers for cheap MicroLEDs and medical imaging fiber, cuts cabling energy by up to 50%, and already fits in a ...

When the commercial, scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing era really begins, when it becomes widely available, it will ...

The 2026 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), the world’s largest annual gathering for optical networking and communications professionals, takes place next week at the Los ...

Artificial intelligence, as it stands today, isn’t cheap. The leaders in the field are spending tens of billions of dollars on chips, data centers and more, running up steep losses so far. That has ...

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Researchers in China published a paper describing a theoretical model for photonic computing that used light particles instead of electrons for faster processing. The team developed “parallel optical ...

A US startup called Neurophos has announced a new kind of AI chip that uses light instead of electricity to process data. Backed by Bill Gates’ Gates Frontier Fund, the company says its optical ...

Researchers develop ultra-fine 3D printing tech for vertical nanolasers, enabling high-density optical chips for AI, AR displays, and secure communications. (Nanowerk News) In future high-tech ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...