Optical Computing

Bill Gates just backed a chip startup that uses light to turbocharge AI

Luminous Computing has developed an optical microchip that runs AI models
much faster than other semiconductors while using less power.

Attojoule Optoelectronics for Low-Energy Information Processing and Communications
David A. B. Miller,

2019 Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light

Simulations suggest photonic chip could run optical neural networks 10 million times more efficiently than its electrical counterparts