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Posted by peter_d_sherman 3 days ago

Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs(medium.com)
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mbfg 4 hours ago|
interesting that it is still 2 bit
kmoser 2 hours ago|
Do you mean as opposed to operating in an analog fashion? My guess is because keeping it digital means it is as close a possible to a drop-in replacement for today's electronic digital computers, including all the firmware, OS, and software that has already been written for them.
metalman 3 hours ago||
akhetonics-photonic-computing 1000x-faster-cpus, in mice
spwa4 1 hour ago||
If you're looking for the limits of this approach: it's about 1000x faster than electric BUT the individual components have to be way larger (and can't be shrinked down)

... which hopefully means a LOT of fabs will be able to produce these (because a 2nm node makes no sense for this)

It also means this will be incredible for radio chips, interconnects, that sort of thing and will do exactly nothing for the first 20 years for cpu's, never mind gpus.

peter_d_sherman 3 days ago||
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Lucasoato 4 hours ago|
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