Semiconductor chips that process light rather than electricity could boost processing speeds and reduce energy use.

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 ...

“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 ...

You know, data centers are getting pretty wild these days, especially with all this AI stuff exploding. For a long time, ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) By studying the theoretical limits of how light can be used to perform computation, Cornell researchers have uncovered new insights and strategies for designing energy-efficient ...

Intel says its work on switching from copper I/O to optical fiber has taken a big step forward in high-speed data transmission. At this year's Optical Fiber Communication Conference in San Francisco, ...

As part of their plan to serve the surging bandwidth demands of wholesale and enterprise customers, Arelion and Ciena are claiming to have completed the world’s first 1.6 terabits-per-second (Tbps) ...