Modern-day communications rely on both fibre-optic cables and wireless radiofrequency (RF) microwave communications. Reaching higher data transmission capabilities is going to require technologies ...

Broadcom Inc. today debuted a new chip, the Sian2, for powering the high-speed optical networks that underpin artificial intelligence clusters. The company says that the module provides twice the ...

Researchers develop ultra-fine 3D printing tech for vertical nanolasers, enabling high-density optical chips for AI, AR displays, and secure communications. (Nanowerk News) In future high-tech ...

Conceptual diagram of the self-calibrating integrated broadband PIC. Credit: Xingyuan Xu et al, Nature Photonics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-022-01020-z Research led by Monash and RMIT Universities in ...

Bill Gates is backing a bold bet that the next leap in computing power will not come from squeezing more transistors onto ...

A standard digital camera used in a car for stuff like emergency braking has a perceptual latency of a hair above 20 milliseconds. That’s just the time needed for a camera to transform the photons ...

A US startup called Neurophos has announced a new kind of AI chip that uses light instead of electricity to process data.

As China joins the international drive to mass produce high-performance photonic chips, an industry pioneer said the technical performance of its chips will position the country for major advances in ...

As global data traffic soars, transmitting information with light instead of electrical signals is becoming crucial for ...

Broadcom Inc. today debuted two new chips, the Sian3 and Sian2M, that data center operators can use to power their optical networks. Optical networks are often used to link together the servers in ...