Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs
38 points by peter_d_sherman 4 days ago | 19 comments
Y_Y 4 minutes ago
In honour of Akhenaten? Cool.
replyamelius 2 hours 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?
replySounds incredible, as in: can't believe it.
By the way, isn't Nvidia researching this?
ziofill 51 minutes ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_optics
replyVery real stuff (I have a PhD on this)
octoberfranklin 2 hours ago
Yes; this material is called "snake oil".
replyjurschreuder 52 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.
replyakifbayram 2 hours ago
The channel's other uploads may be giving us a glimpse into this project's future.
replyhimata4113 2 hours 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.
replynatas 3 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.
replyI'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)