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

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

Find out CPO’s 2025 scorecard and what lies ahead for this optical interconnect technology in 2026 and beyond.

An all optical processor delivers extreme throughput and energy efficiency for generative AI, highlighting a new path beyond electronic computing limits. LightGen: Optical AI Chip 100x Faster Than ...

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 ...

Tensor processors have emerged as a key computing building block in artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) due to their capabilities in data-intensive algorithms. Their ...

This image shows an artist’s interpretation of new optical processor for an edge device, developed by MIT researchers, that performs machine learning computations at the speed of light, classifying ...

(Nanowerk News) As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become extremely challenging to manage the finite amount of ...