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Joseph Shavit
Oct 5, 2022
Miniaturized, energy efficient, computer chip is faster than silicon
Researchers from UPenn have zeroed in on hardware redesign to deliver required improvements in speed, agility and energy usage.
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Joseph Shavit
Jun 20, 2022
Oxford scientists develop the world's first ultra-fast photonic computer processor
Research uses multiple polarisation channels to carry out parallel processing – enhancing computing density by several orders of magnitude.
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Joseph Shavit
May 4, 2022
Light-powered ‘Optical Computers’ just took a major leap forward
Researchers developed light-operated perovskite optoelectronic logic gate. Enabled all 5 basic logic operations with one optical-logic gate.
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Joseph Shavit
Jan 7, 2022
Making quantum computers even more powerful
Engineers at EPFL have developed a method for reading several qubits – the smallest unit of quantum data – at the same time.
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Joshua Shavit
Sep 29, 2021
New optical ‘transistor’ leads to 1,000x faster computations
Team has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation of computers.
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