‘Optical computing … can meet AI’s ever-growing computational demands and unleash a wave of new applications’: Professor Xie Peng
Chinese researchers have developed the first highly parallel optical computing integrated chip, named “Meteor-1”, setting a milestone for using light to perform an enormous number of operations at the same time, the scientists say.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveils plan to build ‘AI supercomputer’ in Taiwan
Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 5090 graphic card, for instance, peaks at 3,352 TOPS while its previous flagship RTX 4090 only reached 1,321 TOPS. In the past, optical chips remained mostly in laboratory settings, and could not come close to commercial flagship GPUs in real-life tasks.
Nvidia’s 4090 and 5090 are effectively banned for sale to China because of US export controls on advanced semiconductors and AI chips that could aid Beijing in advancing its military capabilities.
