Computing is hitting a physical and economic wall just as generative artificial intelligence explodes in complexity and cost.

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

How Computers Powered by Light Could Help With AI's Energy Problem ...

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

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 ...

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

Conventional computer processors have pretty much maxed out their "clock speeds"—a measurement of how fast they can toggle on and off—due to the limitations of electronic switching. Scientists looking ...

“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 ...

A breakthrough optical design allows quantum computers to read information in parallel, a key step toward building ...