photonics
Lightmatter’s photonic AI hardware is ready to shine with $154M in new funding
Photonic computing startup Lightmatter is taking its big shot at the rapidly growing AI computation market with a hardware-software combo it claims will help the industry level up β and save a lot o
Is there a future in light-powered AI chips?
Photonic chips β and the startups creating them β have a long way to go before reaching the mainstream.
This startup hopes photonics will get us to AI systems faster
The problem with waiting for quantum computing to bring in the next wave of AI is that itβs likely to arrive a lot slower than people would like. The next best options include increasing the speed o
Lightmatter’s photonic AI ambitions light up an $80M B round
AI is fundamental to many products and services today, but its hunger for data and computing cycles is bottomless. Lightmatter plans to leapfrog Moore’s law with its ultra-fast photonic chips sp
Researchers develop laser-based underwater Wi-Fi system for sub-sea data networks
A team of researchers working out of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a two-way wireless data connection for use underwater. Strong wireless data connectio
NASA will test a new spacecraft solar sail using a NanoAvionics satellite
NASA is going to test a new solar sail system to determine if it’s a viable alternative to propellant-based thrusters for maneuvering small satellites, and potentially for low-cost transportatio
Bill Gates, Neo, Gigafund backing Luminous in photonics supercomputer moonshot
Luminous Computing, a one-year-old startup, is aiming to build a photonics chip that will handle workloads needed for AI at the speed of light. It’s a moonshot and yet, the young company already
Lightmatter aims to reinvent AI-specific chips with photonic computing and $11M in funding
It takes an immense amount of processing power to create and operate the "AI" features we all use so often, from playlist generation to voice recognition. Lightmatter is a startup that is looking to c
Intel Hits 50 Gbps Throughput With Photonics
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/intel_photonics.jpg" />When we last left the intrepid research scientists at Intel, they had managed to <a href="http://www.crunchgear.co
Going towards the light: Researchers look into replacing wire chip interfaces with optical
The interface between the CPU and the motherboard is a good place for electricity and heat leakage, and it’s also a computation bottleneck. In the interest of faster, better supercomputers (prob