Computing is hitting a physical and economic wall just as generative artificial intelligence explodes in complexity and cost. The traditional trick of cramming more transistors onto silicon is running ...

We always hear that future computers will use optical technology. But what will that look like for a general-purpose computer? German researchers explain it in a recent scientific paper. Although the ...

China is accelerating efforts in optical computer chips to overcome chip restrictions and lead the next wave of AI innovation ...

“Energy efficiency of electronic digital processors is primarily limited by the energy consumption of electronic communication and interconnects. The industry is almost unanimously pushing towards ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The research, published in Nature Communications, addresses one of the key challenges to engineering computers that run on light ...

Barclays has entered a joint development agreement with Microsoft to explore an application for an optical computer that has already outperformed a quantum computer by two orders of magnitude. In ...

NTT and OptQC aim to build a 1-million qubit quantum computer based on light, rather than electricity, to enhance reliability, scalability and practicality. Use cases for a practical optical quantum ...

High-performance optical components supplier Fujitsu Optical Components (FOC) ZR/ZR+ modules, white box switch/router solution provider UfiSpace and networking solutions company DriveNets have ...

In the latest part of its Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) project, designed to meet the growing needs of the hyper-connected business world of the future, NTT Corporation (NTT) has ...