A team of researchers at Queen's University has developed a powerful new kind of computing machine that uses light to take on ...

A key problem facing artificial intelligence (AI) development is the vast amount of energy the technology requires, with some ...

For decades, the solution to harder problems has been ‘build a bigger computer’— but ...

While it's no replacement for either computer, the new device is a powerful alternative for addressing some very practical ...

A team of researchers developed “parallel optical matrix-matrix multiplication” (POMMM), which could revolutionize tensor ...

Published in Nature, the study details the first large-scale demonstration of a photonic Ising machine operating without the ...

In principle, communicating with light is much, much easier than communicating with electricity. We've been doing it for much longer, in technologies ranging from signal fires to fiber-optic networks, ...

First light- and laser-based computing system designed to outperform quantum and supercomputing and solve complex problems unfeasible for GPUs Strategic partner LightSolver named a 2025 World Economic ...

A simple computer that marries the mind-boggling computing power of quantum mechanics with the ease of manipulating light has been built by researchers at the University of Rochester. The device ...

Researchers developing the next generation of computing technology aim to bring some light to the field — literally. Optical computing, which relies on particles of light called photons, is expected ...

AI, machine learning, and ChatGPT may be relatively new buzzwords in the public domain, but developing a computer that functions like the human brain and nervous system -- both hardware and software ...

Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, and his team recently developed a new device that can accelerate and dramatically reduce the energy cost of AI computation, ...