Sketching out a computer chip is both complex and intricate, requiring designers to arrange billions of components on a surface smaller than a fingernail.

This Chip for AI Works Using Light, Not Electrons Lightmatter says the computing and power demands of complex neural networks need new technologies like these to keep up.

The chip was nearly 92 percent accurate at image recognition, matching current chip performance, but cut energy consumption over a thousand-fold.

Neuromorphic computing could completely transform everything about the technology industry from programming languages to hardware.

There are currently several ways to build a quantum computer. But let’s start by describing one of the leading designs to help explain how it works. Imagine a lightbulb filament, hanging upside ...

We’re getting closer to the point where we can process information on computer chips using light instead of electricity. A new study published in the journal Science explains how researchers at ...

Live Science reports that such a technology could use a beam of light to fix a magnetic bit in a superposition of both 1 and 0, similar to how qubits work in quantum computers.

This will make quantum computing ready for useful applications when the quantum hardware catches up. Building a full-scale quantum computer is a daunting task.