Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was ...

Way, way back in the day, “computing” was the domain of analog circuits. No, they couldn’t add up columns of numbers, but they could solve complex differential and other equations, and did so fairly ...

A revolutionary AI chip from China just changed the game Developed by researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong and Tsinghua ...

As the realm of computing continues to evolve, the integration of optical technologies has emerged as a groundbreaking frontier, presenting new paradigms for processing and information transfer.

Ternary optical computing systems represent an innovative leap beyond traditional binary computation by utilising three discrete logic states. This approach leverages the intrinsic advantages of ...

Founded in 2021, Virginia-based Procyon Photonics is a startup aiming to change the future of computing hardware with its focus on optical computing. What makes the company unique is that their entire ...

Researchers have made a major advance in quantum computing with a new device that is nearly 100 times smaller than the ...

Researchers have developed a fiber neural network system that performs intelligent processing of optical communication signals directly in the light domain. This approach integrates optical ...

For decades there has been near constant progress in reducing the size, and increasing the performance, of the circuits that power computers and smartphones. But Moore’s Law is ending as physical ...

In a recent study published in Nature Photonics, a research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid developed a new ...

Japanese telecom firm NTT and Tokyo-based electronics giant Toshiba are working on new ways around this problem. In November, ...

The development of computers with functions modelled on those of the human brain and nervous system, termed neuromorphic computing, has been a long standing goal of researchers. Architectures to ...