Capture light to store it as memory
Techniques that will allow memory chips to capture light are being worked on by researchers, from Exeter, Oxford, and Münster. The aim is to allow large
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Techniques that will allow memory chips to capture light are being worked on by researchers, from Exeter, Oxford, and Münster. The aim is to allow large
E-Mail IMAGE: The spread of light in a matrix made of phase change materials - the principle of the photonic processor (schematic diagram) view more Credit: AG Pernice - xvivo Artificial intelligence (AI) is seen as a key technology with fields of application in a wide variety of areas in society. However, researching, developing and, in particular, using AI systems presents enormous challenges for the computing power and storage capacity needed to process large data volumes. These are generated for example in internet applications such as the Internet of Things and broadband serv...
7th January 2021 9:51 am A multinational team of researchers has developed a photonic processor that uses light instead of electronics and could help usher in a new dawn in computing. Current computing relies on electrical current passed through circuitry on ever-smaller chips, but in recent years this technology has been bumping up against its physical limits. To facilitate the next generation of computation-hungry technology such as artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles, researchers have been searching for new methods to process and store data that circumvent those limits, and p...
Light-Carrying Chips Advance Machine Learning In the digital age, data traffic is growing at an exponential rate. The demands on computing power for applications in artificial intelligence such as pattern and speech recognition in particular, or for self-driving vehicles, often exceeds the capacities of conventional computer processors. Working together with an international team, researchers at the University of Münster are developing new approaches and process architectures which can cope with these tasks extremely efficie...
E-Mail IMAGE: Schematic representation of a processor for matrix multiplications which runs on light. Together with an optical frequency comb, the waveguide crossbar array permits highly parallel data processing. view more Credit: WWU/AG Pernice In the digital age, data traffic is growing at an exponential rate. The demands on computing power for applications in artificial intelligence such as pattern and speech recognition in particular, or for self-driving vehicles, often exceeds the capacities of conventional computer processors. Working together with an international team, res...