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Photonic Chips: The Next Frontier in AI Compute

Startups demo photonic accelerators with lower latency and energy per operation than CMOS.

Arjun Mehta

Arjun Mehta

Photonic Chips: The Next Frontier in AI Compute

Integrated photonics promise massive parallelism and reduced heat, tackling AI workloads with optical interconnects and modulators.

Challenges

Fabrication yield, integration with CMOS, and software stacks remain hurdles.

FAQs

When mainstream? Pilot deployments could arrive in data centers within 2–3 years.

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