Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs

 (medium.com)

39 points | by peter_d_sherman 3 days ago

13 comments

  • amelius 1 hour ago
    So they have some kind of nonlinear material that can make light modulate other light, that they managed to get working at teraherz frequencies?

    Sounds incredible, as in: can't believe it.

    By the way, isn't Nvidia researching this?

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  • 1e1a 8 minutes ago
    Finally! This paves the way towards practical BrainF** execution.
  • Y_Y 5 minutes ago
    In honour of Akhenaten? Cool.
  • jurschreuder 53 minutes ago
    It's just as if he had the brilliant idea to do photonics as an outcast even though there is already a 6" wafer semi-production level fablab being built for it in The Netherlands. There is even a version of TinyTapeout for Photonics.
  • akifbayram 1 hour ago
    The channel's other uploads may be giving us a glimpse into this project's future.
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    • JoshTriplett 1 hour ago
      Yup. UFO conspiracies, aliens on the moon, PSI...
  • himata4113 1 hour ago
    This comes up every couple of years, but it hasn't seem to have made any advances since the first time I've seen this.
  • 12ah5kl 2 hours ago
    Interesting topic, unreadable due to sloppification.
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    • yuhmahp 1 hour ago
      Now it's a good case to use your own ai to un-sloppify
  • metalman 59 minutes ago
    akhetonics-photonic-computing 1000x-faster-cpus, in mice
  • dvh 2 hours ago
    > Photonics

    So also 1000x smaller integration

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  • natas 2 hours ago
    This has been tried by Cray like 15 years ago and the university of Colorado 11 years ago; there were also other initiatives, all failed.

    I'm not excluding that now we have more budget/time/AI to make it work (if it can), I'd just say exercise caution reading this (very AI slop) article (and anything that looks too good to be true)

  • mbfg 2 hours ago
    interesting that it is still 2 bit
  • peter_d_sherman 3 days ago
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  • Lucasoato 1 hour ago
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