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fromNature
5 days ago

China is betting on 'optical' computer chips - will they power AI?

As generative artificial-intelligence models become more sophisticated and eat up more energy to produce images and videos, the electronic chips that power them are reaching their limits of speed and efficiency. Optical chips - semiconductor chips that run on light rather than electricity - could solve these problems, say researchers working in the field. Such chips, also called photonic chips, are still years away from being integrated into consumer computers and are unlikely to wholly replace electronic chips.
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fromTheregister
1 week ago

Neurophos bets on optical transistors to bend Moore's Law

Neurophos is developing an optical processing unit using micron-scale metamaterial modulators to deliver 470 petaFLOPS FP4/INT4 compute at much higher density with comparable power.
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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing | TechCrunch

Neurophos developed metasurface modulators enabling optical tensor-core chips that perform AI matrix-vector multiplications faster and more energy-efficiently than current GPUs for inference.
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