Two new studies suggest optical computing will address "bottlenecks in traditional computing" and reduce energy demands driven by advances in AI.

Computer chips that combine the use of light and electricity are shown to increase computational performance, while reducing ...

Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU chip delivering 42.5 exaflops of AI compute power — 24x more than the world's fastest supercomputer — ushering in the "age of inference." ...

During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip.

However, converting photons into electrical signals can slow down processing times since light operates at higher speeds.

Computers that use photons rather than electrons to manipulate data promise greater speed and energy efficiency, and the ...

Silicon Valley startup Lightmatter revealed on Wednesday it had developed a new type of computer chip that could both speed ...

A tech firm has just demonstrated that a computer chip using light and the speed at which it moves for processing handles ...

Trump has said, as a result of his tariffs, manufacturing jobs will be “reshored” to the U.S. Here's what would happen if ...

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a chart of "reciprocal tariffs" at the White House on April 2, 2025 Credit - Chip ...

At GTC 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang projected $1 trillion in global data center CapEx by 2028. At this pace, data center ...

China's latest export restrictions on Scandium and Dysprosium threaten to disrupt global supply chains for major tech players ...