Thanks to improvements in fiber optics, most of the information that you consume on any given day is transported by light. Quite inefficiently, however, most computer chips need electricity to ...

Stock image showing a computer chip shining light. Scientists have designed a new microchip that's powered by light rather than electricity.

The company says its chip runs 1.5 to 10 times faster than a top-of-the-line Nvidia A100 AI chip, depending on the task. Running a natural language model called BERT, for example, Lightmatter says ...

We’re getting closer to the point where we can process information on computer chips using light instead of electricity. A new study published in the journal Science explains how researchers at ...

Becoming the Silicon Valley of the Northeast may have as much power as the computer chips that will soon be designed and developed in the upstate New York region. The recent Chips 101 event, hosted by ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) — A group of teenagers in Fairfax County have created a supercomputer chip with the goal of reinventing the computer. “We used to skip lunch,” said Sathvik Redrouthu.

But if we could use light, made up of photons, instead of electricity, we could make transistors even faster. My work, on finding ways to integrate light-based processing with existing chips, is ...

Programming light on a chip Research opens doors in photonic quantum information processing, optical signal processing and microwave photonics Date: January 8, 2019 Source: Harvard John A. Paulson ...

Computer components are shrinking, but the chips they sit on keep getting larger, creating information delays from one circuit to another. So electrical and computer engineer Kenneth O is creating a ...

New chip design uses photons rather than electrons to perform calculations, and scientists hope to integrate the technology into future graphics cards to train AI.