https://www.eetimes.com/lightmatter-raises-more-funding-for-photonic-ai-chip/
“This really means that it’s general purpose, it’s future-proof,” Harris said. “If someone comes up with new operators that we hadn’t thought of — we hard code a lot of things into the chip, just like everyone else — if you come up with something new, we’ll catch it with the RISC cores.” “20 GHz is probably possible,” “Right now we’re at one color and doing just fine,” Harris said. “I think we’re going to go to two colors soon, and that will result in a 2X performance increase, and there’ll be a big boost in the energy efficiency.” "Samples of Envise will be available by the end of 2021." https://www.eetimes.com/optical-compute-promises-game-changing-ai-performance/ “We could take existing AI data centers and reduce the energy consumption by a factor of 20 and shrink the physical footprint by a factor of five,” Harris said. “And that’s just with the first generation of what we’re building. There’s a long road map ahead.” “It is a tall challenge,” he said. “In the history of computing since the 1960s, there has never been a technology that has replaced electronic transistors for compute. It’s never happened. People have tried and it didn’t work out. I think that this is the first time that you’re going to see it happen, and the way that we’re selling it is by showing it working.” ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2a90af180c5dbd58-M2254878199e93000dee1a649 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
