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.
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)
Do you mean as opposed to operating in an analog fashion? My guess is because keeping it digital means it is as close a possible to a drop-in replacement for today's electronic digital computers, including all the firmware, OS, and software that has already been written for them.
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?
Yes; this material is called "snake oil".
Let's see if the investors bite.
Theranos demonstrated that they'll bite at anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_optics
Very real stuff (I have a PhD on this)
I mean, researchers have been trying for years, what is different now?
At milliwatt power, and terahertz frequency?
I guess it's a theoretical limit as in the material can change properties that fast given a fast light signal.
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.
What's this photonic Tiny Tapeout?
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.
Finally! This paves the way towards practical BrainF*** execution.
In honour of Akhenaten? Cool.
Interesting topic, unreadable due to sloppification.
Now it's a good case to use your own ai to un-sloppify
The channel's other uploads may be giving us a glimpse into this project's future.
Yup. UFO conspiracies, aliens on the moon, PSI...
> Photonics
So also 1000x smaller integration
Why?
akhetonics-photonic-computing 1000x-faster-cpus, in mice
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)
interesting that it is still 2 bit
Do you mean as opposed to operating in an analog fashion? My guess is because keeping it digital means it is as close a possible to a drop-in replacement for today's electronic digital computers, including all the firmware, OS, and software that has already been written for them.