Photonics articles

Startup claims light-based chip could deliver 10x Nvidia's performance at similar power

First look: Light, not silicon, may define the next leap in computing power. That's the bet Austin-based startup Neurophos is making as it challenges the idea that Moore's Law still governs the pace of performance progress. The company is developing a photonics-driven processor designed to do what decades of transistor scaling can no longer achieve: massive compute throughput without a proportional explosion in energy use.

This microscopic chip turns one beam of light into three – and it could reshape quantum computing

This silicon chip creates dozens of laser beams from one source – and could reshape data centers

New wireless technology reaches record 1 Tbps data transmission speed

Startup raises $8.5M to build glass substrate chips, counts NATO as an investor

Scientists build a memory cell with electrical-optical duality

Scientists build the first light-based hardware that competes with silicon

Intel demos the 400G, a 400Gbps transceiver for the datacenter

DARPA aims to take on electronics in the post-Moore's Law era