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.
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1e1a 6 minutes ago
Finally! This paves the way towards practical BrainF** execution.
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amelius 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?

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

By the way, isn't Nvidia researching this?

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ziofill 51 minutes ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_optics

Very real stuff (I have a PhD on this)

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amelius 2 minutes ago
I mean, researchers have been trying for years, what is different now?
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octoberfranklin 2 hours ago
Yes; this material is called "snake oil".
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amelius 2 hours ago
Let's see if the investors bite.
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wartywhoa23 50 minutes ago
Theranos demonstrated that they'll bite at anything.
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jurschreuder 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.
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akifbayram 2 hours ago
The channel's other uploads may be giving us a glimpse into this project's future.
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JoshTriplett 60 minutes ago
Yup. UFO conspiracies, aliens on the moon, PSI...
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himata4113 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.
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12ah5kl 3 hours ago
Interesting topic, unreadable due to sloppification.
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yuhmahp 2 hours ago
Now it's a good case to use your own ai to un-sloppify
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metalman 58 minutes ago
akhetonics-photonic-computing 1000x-faster-cpus, in mice
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dvh 3 hours ago
> Photonics

So also 1000x smaller integration

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amelius 2 hours ago
Why?
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natas 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.

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)

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mbfg 3 hours ago
interesting that it is still 2 bit
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peter_d_sherman 4 days ago
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Lucasoato 2 hours ago
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