Q/C Technologies Launches Optical Processing Unit (OPU) Initiative to Develop Proprietary Silicon Photonic Computing Architecture for AI Inference

New initiative aimed at developing optical computing technologies to overcome the performance and energy limitations of traditional electronic ...

Lightmatter Announces Reference Architecture Initiative with Industry Leaders in the Open Compute Project for Co-Packaged Optics

Lightmatter, today announced a new collaborative initiative within the Open Compute Project (OCP) to create open specifications for a shared reference architecture enabling interoperable Co-Packaged ...

OFC 2026 Opens Next Week in Los Angeles With Sold-Out Exhibition, as AI-Driven Network Demand Fuels Surge of Major Product Debuts and Breakthrough Innovations

The 2026 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), the world’s largest annual gathering for optical networking and communications professionals, takes place next week at the Los ...
Inc

How an ‘Infinity Mirror’ Device Could Help Solve AI’s Biggest Problem

Artificial intelligence, as it stands today, isn’t cheap. The leaders in the field are spending tens of billions of dollars on chips, data centers and more, running up steep losses so far. That has ...
ExtremeTech

Could Computing With Light Finally Make AI Profitable?

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CNET

Computers Powered by Light Could Help AI's Energy Problem

Julian is a contributor and former staff writer at CNET. He's covered a range of topics, such as tech, crypto travel, sports and commerce. His past work has appeared at print and online publications, ...
Popular Mechanics

A Radical New Computer Could Replace Electricity With Light—and Make Processing Unstoppable

Researchers in China published a paper describing a theoretical model for photonic computing that used light particles instead of electrons for faster processing. The team developed “parallel optical ...
Gizmochina

Bill Gates Backed Startup Creates Light-Powered AI Chip That Can Beat Nvidia

A US startup called Neurophos has announced a new kind of AI chip that uses light instead of electricity to process data. Backed by Bill Gates’ Gates Frontier Fund, the company says its optical ...
Nanowerk

Direct printing of nanolasers advances optical computing and quantum security

Researchers develop ultra-fine 3D printing tech for vertical nanolasers, enabling high-density optical chips for AI, AR displays, and secure communications. (Nanowerk News) In future high-tech ...
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 ...