Researchers unveil world's fastest optical neuromorphic processor Dr Xingyuan (Mike) Xu holds one of the optical micro-combs Researchers led by Swinburne University of Technology have demonstrated the world's fastest and most powerful optical neuromorphic processor for artificial intelligence (AI). The processor is able to operate at faster than 10 trillion operations per second (TeraOPs/s) and is capable of processing ultra-large scale data. Details have been published in Nature, and the breakthrough is seen as representing an enormous leap forward for neural networks and neuromorphic processing in general. Artificial neural networks can 'learn' and perform complex operations and are inspired by the biological structure of the brain's visual cortex system. Artificial neural networks extract key features of raw data to predict properties and behaviour with high levels of accuracy and simplicity.