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Technology Chat => New Technology, Science etc ... => Topic started by: Art on July 30, 2021, 14:10:40 PM
This photonic computer is 10X faster than NVIDIA GPUs using 90% less energy!
This light-based computer is liable to blow the doors off of the graphics industry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1R7ElXEyag
The video certainly brings new (dare I say it) Light to the task of GPU speed!
The industry has been waiting a long time (in computer terms) for working photonic computing, I still think it's quite a long way off for home users.
Faster, less power, less heat, what's not to like 8)
I caught some news on this. Very interesting. Here's some more detail. (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/06/lightmatters-photonic-ai-ambitions-light-up-an-80m-b-round/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAA6LfGnczwZDN7gQcZz1WYaJJv8XbsJS1WNSDLQ5-RIPVL7adsykY-15oNHQV_52UHi0F9Md-vFbhEKeW7YlL-FMF7UsTz7eVKqefnHAmnYcfrDoCTxnLSBfgX5HipIgCMn3joaCqwmRgyznWGji6fXaDizihJOWQag17G70DPgJ)
It seems they have a prototype product but still require development especially to interface back to silicon. Going to be high end machines for a while yet but promising. My guesstimate would be 10 years to filter to the likes of home computer graphics. Roll on 2031.
Very interesting, thanks Snowy :thumbsup: