That red glow under your optical mouse isn't just a random design choice. It comes down to sensor behavior, cost, and what ...

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

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 ...

Chinese researchers developed an optical chip system that reportedly made distributed AI inference 100 times faster while ...

Figure 1. Ultra-high parallel optical computing integrated chip - "Liuxing-I". High-detail view of an ultra-high parallelism optical computing integrated chip – “Liuxing-I”, showcasing the packaged ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

Advance could pave the way for optical transistors and memory for optical computing. (Nanowerk News) A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University ...

The explosive growth of data generated by artificial intelligence, cloud computing and modern digital infrastructure is ...

Engineers have developed a multifunctional, reconfigurable component for an optical computing system that could be a game changer in electronics. As fast as modern electronics have become, they could ...

A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists at the University of Bath in the UK to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Moore’s law is already pretty fast. It holds that computer chips pack in twice as many transistors every two years or so, producing ...