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

Scientists built a light powered AI prototype that matches chip accuracy while using less energy and producing less heat.

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 ...

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

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

Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A collaboration between two research teams from Tampere University in Finland and ...

Computers that use light rather than electricity to represent and manipulate data could slash the power demands of data centres and simultaneously speed up calculations. Two studies published today ...

Published in Nature, the study details the first large-scale demonstration of a photonic Ising machine operating without the ...

Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, and his team recently developed a new device that can accelerate and dramatically reduce the energy cost of AI computation, ...