2015年10月29日 · The concept of optical computing is reintroduced with an important new twist — optical computing not as a digital machine, but as an analog engine able to serve as a hardware accelerator for...

2023年6月27日 · Over the past three years a team of Microsoft researchers has been developing a new kind of analog optical computer that uses photons and electrons to process continuous value data, unlike today’s digital computers that use transistors to crunch through binary data.

2023年6月28日 · Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge has unveiled the world’s first analog optical computer which promises to solve optimization problems at a lightning-fast pace, a press release said....

2023年6月27日 · To start, they built the first 8-variable optical computer of its kind. The computer uses different intensities of light to compute at the same location where the information is stored. The researchers called the device they built AIM, for Analog Iterative Machine.

2023年6月8日 · A new kind of computer – an analog optical computer – that has the potential to accelerate AI inference and hard optimization workloads by 100x, leveraging hardware-software co-design to improve the efficiency and sustainability of real-world applications.

2022年3月1日 · Here, we provide a brief review of the recent breakthroughs of analog optical computing in different AI models with their unique strengths in solving versatile applications and remaining challenges for practical implementations.

The concept of optical computing is reintroduced with an important new twist — optical computing not as a digital machine, but as an analog engine able to serve as a hardware accelerator for...

2024年3月29日 · The idea of an analog computer—a device that use continuous variables rather than zeros and ones—may evoke obsolete machinery, from mechanical watches to bombsight devices used in World War II. But emerging technologies, including AI, may reap great benefits from this computing approach.

In this review, we introduce the latest developments of optical computing for different AI models, including feedforward neural networks, reservoir computing, and spiking neural networks (SNNs).

2023年1月27日 · This review presents an overview of the current state-of-the-art in photonics computing, which leverages photons, photons coupled with matter, and optics-related technologies for effective and efficient computational purposes.