Diffractive networks enable optical information transfer through random and unknown diffusers

The transmission of optical information through random scattering media is a major challenge in optics, biomedical imaging, ...
The Next Platform

Optical Scale Up Fabrics Are Limited By Manufacturing, Not Architecture

Earlier this spring, AMD, Broadcom, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI formed the Optical Compute Interconnect ...
Digi Times

SmartSens, Unisoc team up on Micro LED optical interconnects for AI computing

Chinese CMOS image sensor supplier SmartSens Technology announced on May 26 that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Chinese IC design company Unisoc to jointly develop Micro LED-based ...
Forbes

Emerging Computing Capabilities That Will Change The World

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Design News

Optical AI Architecture Delivers Faster Inference While Saving Energy

Optical processing has long been explored for its potential in high-speed computing, but hurdles such as cost and scalability have prevented widespread deployment. Lumai, an optical compute company, ...
Aviation Week

Boeing Funds Israel’s LightSolver To Advance Laser Optical Computing

LightSolver's optical supercomputer uses laser interference patterns to solve complex physics problems. Credit: LightSolver Boeing is funding Israeli startup LightSolver to apply its laser-based ...
MarketWatch

Optical Computing Company Lightelligence Jumps Fivefold in Hong Kong Debut -- Update

Shares of Alibaba-backed Lightelligence surged in its Hong Kong debut on strong investor demand, putting the Chinese optical-computing provider's market value at $9.5 billion. Shares of the company, ...
Morningstar

Sunny Optical Shows Long-Term Ambition in Optics Computing and Memory, but Limited Near-Term Impact

Sunny Optical’s revenue and earnings are largely derived from manufacturing camera lenses and modules for smartphones, automobiles, and extended reality devices. Sunny has become the largest handset ...
CNET

Computers Powered by Light Could Help AI's Energy Problem

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Science Daily

Breakthrough optical processor lets AI compute at the speed of light

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 ...
New Atlas

Single-shot light-speed computing might replace GPUs

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 ...