For decades, the solution to harder problems has been ‘build a bigger computer’— but ...

As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, so does its appetite for speed and energy. The quest for faster, smarter systems has driven researchers to an unlikely ally—light itself. A new study by ...

Researchers at the University of Florida, the Georgia Institute of Technology and other institutions are warning that artificial intelligence is driving a steep rise in electricity use, and some of ...

It’s a bright day for computing — literally. Two tech companies have unveiled computer components that use laser light to process information. These futuristic processors could soon solve specific ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A collaboration between two research teams from Tampere University in Finland and ...

'Gyromorphs' have chip capabilities essential to the design of cutting-edge computers that use light instead of electricity. (Nanowerk News) Researchers have been developing computers that deploy ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...