Q/C Technologies Launches Optical Processing Unit (OPU) Initiative to Develop Proprietary Silicon Photonic Computing Architecture for AI Inference

New initiative aimed at developing optical computing technologies to overcome the performance and energy limitations of traditional electronic ...

Lightmatter Announces Reference Architecture Initiative with Industry Leaders in the Open Compute Project for Co-Packaged Optics

Lightmatter, today announced a new collaborative initiative within the Open Compute Project (OCP) to create open specifications for a shared reference architecture enabling interoperable Co-Packaged ...

OFC 2026 Opens Next Week in Los Angeles With Sold-Out Exhibition, as AI-Driven Network Demand Fuels Surge of Major Product Debuts and Breakthrough Innovations

The 2026 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), the world’s largest annual gathering for optical networking and communications professionals, takes place next week at the Los ...
ExtremeTech

Could Computing With Light Finally Make AI Profitable?

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Popular Mechanics

A Radical New Computer Could Replace Electricity With Light—and Make Processing Unstoppable

Researchers in China published a paper describing a theoretical model for photonic computing that used light particles instead of electrons for faster processing. The team developed “parallel optical ...
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Photoshop tutorial: How to create the “Hybrid Effect” optical illusion

Photoshop cc 2014 tutorial showing how to create the photographic, optical illusion called the “Hybrid Effect”. This effect combines two different photos into one image. When the image is viewed at ...
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Photoshop tutorial: How to make a bi-directional, optical illusion, photo portrait

Photoshop cc 2014 tutorial showing how to create a bi-directional, optical illusion, photo portrait. Is the face looking to the left or towards the camera? IMPORTANT: At 4:22, Ctrl-click or Cmd-click ...
New Atlas

Single-shot light-speed computing might replace GPUs

Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...
Fast Company

Has NTT sparked the long-awaited quantum-computing revolution?

For the past decade, quantum computing has struggled to balance promise and practicality. While the world’s most advanced systems remain engineering marvels, they’re bedeviled by the same flaw: the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Parallel Implementation Of Nonlinear Functions Using An Optical Processor (UCLA)

A new technical paper titled “Massively parallel and universal approximation of nonlinear functions using diffractive processors” was published by researchers at UCLA. “Nonlinear computation is ...
Seeking Alpha

POET Technologies and Quantum Computing Inc. to Co-Develop 3.2 Tbps Optical Engines for CPO and Next-Gen AI Connectivity

400G/Lane, TFLN modulator-based innovation to play a key role in the future of computing QCi will leverage its expertise with TFLN to integrate the high-performance 400G/Lane modulators with the POET ...
Nanowerk

Fluorescent film enables optical computing with built-in memory and display

Researchers create a photochromic fluorescent system that performs optical neural computing and visual output in one step, cutting power use and complexity. (Nanowerk News) The rapid growth of ...