The need for high-throughput and energy-efficient optical infrastructure, driven by AI demands, was a recurring theme at this ...

At the OFC 2026 conference, Nokia showed how its Infinera acquisition and vertical integration provide the optical ...

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 ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now embarks upon a series of guest analysis pieces ...

Controlling light with light is a long-sought goal for computing and communication technologies. Achieving this capability would allow optical signals to be processed without converting them into ...

Artificial intelligence, as it stands today, isn’t cheap. The leaders in the field are spending tens of billions of dollars on chips, data centers and more, running up steep losses so far. That has ...

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“The ability to process and act on data in real time is increasingly critical for applications ranging from autonomous vehicles, three-dimensional environmental sensing, and remote robotics. However, ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists in China are suggesting a new model of computing that could massively shorten processing time—if it works, that is. To contextualize their ...

A US startup called Neurophos has announced a new kind of AI chip that uses light instead of electricity to process data. Backed by Bill Gates’ Gates Frontier Fund, the company says its optical ...