Photonics as a Carbon-Sustainable Solution for Next-Gen AI Hardware (Boston Univ., NY CREATES, Lightmatter, Cornell Tech)


A new technical paper titled "Photonics for sustainable AI" was published by researchers at Boston University, NY CREATES, Lightmatter and Cornell Tech. Abstract "The rising computational demands of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are driving a rapid surge in carbon emissions from the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Traditional CMOS-based computing is reaching its scali... » read more

Photonic SRAM Facilitating Electro-Optic Data Storage For Ultra-Fast IMC (UW-Madison, USC)


A new technical paper titled "X-pSRAM: A Photonic SRAM with Embedded XOR Logic for Ultra-Fast In-Memory Computing" was published by researchers at University of Wisconsin–Madison and USC. Abstract "Traditional von Neumann architectures suffer from fundamental bottlenecks due to continuous data movement between memory and processing units, a challenge that worsens with technology scaling ... » read more

Photonic-Electronic SmartNIC With Fast and Energy-Efficient Photonic Computing Cores (MIT)


A technical paper titled “Lightning: A Reconfigurable Photonic-Electronic SmartNIC for Fast and Energy-Efficient Inference” was published by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Abstract: "The massive growth of machine learning-based applications and the end of Moore's law have created a pressing need to redesign computing platforms. We propose Lightning, the first ... » read more

A Step Towards Eliminating The Von-Neumann Bottleneck By Co-locating Photonic Computing Elements And Non-Volatile Memory 


A technical paper titled “Non-volatile heterogeneous III-V/Si photonics via optical charge-trap memory” was published by researchers at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. "We demonstrate, for the first time, non-volatile charge-trap flash memory (CTM) co-located with heterogeneous III-V/Si photonics. The wafer-bonded III-V/Si CTM cell facilitates non-volatile optical functionality for a variety... » read more

Architecting Faster Computers


To create faster computers, the industry must take a major step back and re-examine choices that were made half a century ago. One of the most likely approaches involves dropping demands for determinism, and this is being attempted in several different forms. Since the establishment of the von Neumann architecture for computers, small, incremental improvements have been made to architectures... » read more