The idea of optical computing—the use of photons instead ... but there are good reasons for business leaders to keep up with computer processing trends. Consider Nvidia, which began repurposing ...

The computer industry has already acknowledged ... in which many independent beams may be modified by a single pixel in an optical processor. In principle, supercomputers based on optical ...

In principle, one could build a digital electronic computer ... the processor industry has suspended the trend to higher frequencies in favour of parallelism. Even if a practical optical ...

This development may be a big step towards a fully optical computer, where we use light ... the processing power of a single ...

USB drives and optical discs are also storage. Memory is made up of "random access memory" (RAM) chips, which are upgradable by the user in a desktop computer ... in both the CPU and memory.

Predicting the future of information technology, especially on a ten year time scale, can be a perilous business,” said Intel technical marketing manager ...

If you’re Intel, you develop a multi-core processor with an on-chip ... die packages with that chip-to-chip optical networking built in. But your computer today is the equal of a supercomputer ...

But shuttling data between the processor and memory eats up time ... At the heart of an optical computer is an old idea: the Mach–Zehnder interferometer (mzi), invented in the 1890s.

I have been a technology journalist for almost 30 years and have covered just about every kind of computer gear—from ... discontinued Microsoft Trackball Optical Mouse (my personal favorite ...

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KeyBanc analyst John Vinh shared mixed quarterly supply chain findings for the semiconductor sector. The analyst revised ...

The second Prime Day event of the year, dubbed Prime Big Deal Days, is around the corner. It officially kicks off Oct. 8, but ...