A tech firm has just demonstrated that a computer chip using light and the speed at which it moves for processing handles ...

However, converting photons into electrical signals can slow down processing times since light operates at higher speeds.

Two companies have announced photonic devices that could solve specific real-world problems faster and with less energy than conventional computers.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Silicon Valley startup Lightmatter revealed on Wednesday it had developed a new type of computer ...

In particular, radiation can have devastating effects on computer chips. Space radiation, from solar flares or galactic cosmic rays, alter the electrical properties on an integrated circuit. The most ...

On April 1, 2025, the Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC introduced the world's most advanced microchip: the 2 nanometer (2nm) chip.

(Bloomberg) -- Computer chips are the engine room of the digital economy, and their growing capabilities are enabling technologies such as generative artificial intelligence that promise to ...

Challenging the world's most successful chipmaker with an entirely new type of computer chip may seem absurd—but it is no more ridiculous than the AI race itself. Extropic is not a normal startup.

Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes is so important to the future of humanity that he’s asked me not to reveal our ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 9 (Reuters) - Silicon Valley startup Lightmatter revealed on Wednesday it had developed a new type of computer chip that could both speed up artificial intelligence work and ...