{"id":278034,"date":"2025-04-09T15:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/new-computer-chips-do-math-with-light\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:51:21","slug":"new-computer-chips-do-math-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/new-computer-chips-do-math-with-light\/","title":{"rendered":"New computer chips do math with light"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s a bright day for computing \u2014 literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two tech companies have unveiled computer components that use laser light to process information. These futuristic processors could soon solve specific real-world problems faster and with lower energy requirements than conventional computers. The announcements, published separately April 9 in Nature<\/em>, mark a major leap forward for this alternative approach to computing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightelligence, based in Boston, and Lightmatter, in Mountain View, Calif., have shown that light-based, or photonic, components \u201ccan do things that we care about, and that they can do them better than electronic chips that we already have,\u201d says Anthony Rizzo, a photonics engineer at Dartmouth College who was not involved in either study.<\/p>\n\n\n