Marvell's $3.8B acquisitions of Celestial AI and XConn target optical interconnects and CXL switching for next-gen AI ...

Startup Akhetonics GmbH has raised €6 million in funding for its optical chip technology, which can perform digital, analog and quantum computations in the same system. TechCrunch reported the ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Light waves, as they propagate through a medium, experience a temporal delay. This delay can unveil crucial information about the underlying structural and compositional characteristics. Quantitative ...

A new technical paper titled “Massively parallel and universal approximation of nonlinear functions using diffractive processors” was published by researchers at UCLA. “Nonlinear computation is ...

UCLA researchers have conducted an in-depth analysis of nonlinear information encoding strategies for diffractive optical processors, offering new insights into their performance and utility. Their ...

Chinese scientists have produced what they claim is the world’s first ultra-high-parallel optical computing integrated chip, delivering a theoretical 2,560 tera-operations per second (TOPS) at a 50 ...

China’s latest optical AI chip is being pitched as a generational leap, with researchers claiming performance roughly 100 ...

A standard digital camera used in a car for stuff like emergency braking has a perceptual latency of a hair above 20 milliseconds. That’s just the time needed for a camera to transform the photons ...

Lumai, a spin out from the University of Oxford, was founded by a team with expertise in optics over two years ago, aiming to develop a new type of AI processor. During Computex 2024, Lumai joined the ...