Optical computing uses photons instead of electrons to perform computations, which can significantly increase the speed and energy efficiency of computations by overcoming the inherent limitations of ...

Photonic innovation: researchers in the US have created an optical metamaterial that can perform vector–matrix multiplication. (Courtesy: iStock/Henrik5000) A new silicon photonics platform that can ...

Israeli startup Lenslet Labs has gone back to the fundamentals of mathematics to develop a processing engine that can handle matrix calculations natively without having to break them down into many ...