INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Chinese researchers have developed the first highly parallel optical computing integrated chip, named “Meteor-1”, setting a milestone
for using light to perform an enormous number of operations at the same time, the scientists say.
The advance promises hardware acceleration
for AI and data centres struggling with soaring computational demands.
The chip achieves a theoretical peak computing power of 2,560 TOPS
(tera-operations per second) at 50GHz optical frequency – performance comparable to...
