Our computer processors could soon use light to transmit data instead of electricity. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, along with a number of other universities, have developed ...

Research teams have developed a single-chip microprocessor that uses light for I/O, by packing two CPU cores with more than 70 million transistors and 850 photonic components onto a 3 x 6-mm chip.

University researchers are claiming a bandwidth breakthrough with the first light-based microprocessor that communicates with conventional electronic circuitry. While optical computing is hardly a new ...