Advanced Computing in the Age of AI | Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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LyteLoop Wants to Take Data Storage Beyond the Clouds Into Orbit Around Earth

Diminishing returns on costly data center investments—facilities already bulging at the seams—are engendering novel architectures for storing data. Early prototypes such as Microsoft’s submersible data center address cooling requirements ...Full Article

Photonics Processor Aimed at AI Inference

Silicon photonics is exhibiting greater innovation as requirements grow to enable faster, lower-power chip interconnects for traditionally power-hungry applications like AI inferencing. With that in mind, scientists at Massachusetts ...Full Article

Optalysys Switches on Commercial Optical Co-Processor

Optalysys, Ltd., a U.K. company seeking to advance it optical co-processor technology, moved a step closer this week with the unveiling of what it claims is the first commercial optical ...Full Article

U.S. Chip Initiative Aims For ‘Moore’s (Law) Inflection’

It is telling that the keynote speaker at a major U.S. computer engineering conference represents the Department of Defense, which is pouring billions of R&D dollars into new chip ...Full Article

Silicon Photonics Emerging to Meet Bandwidth Demand

Hyper-scale datacenters and high-bandwidth, high-data-rate telecommunications applications are expected to drive demand for silicon optics technology that integrates fiber optics with CMOS chip manufacturing and three-dimensional chip stacking, a ...Full Article
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