Lightmatter’s Photonic Arithmetic Computing Engine: First photonic processor capable of executing state-of-the-art neural network tasks

https://physicsworld.com/a/photonic-computer-chips-perform-as-well-as-purely-electronic-counterparts-say-researchers/

"photonic perform as well as electronic chips, but difficult to integrate with conventional silicon electronics, overcome with hybrid photonic-electronic system of >16K photonic components integrated on single silicon electronic chip... starts as electronic, encoded as binary light intensities, fed into optical 64 x 64 weight modulators, result vectors converted back to electronic... max-cut/ optimizations... solves Ising model problem in 5 ns, 500X faster... photonic and electronic chips using existing processing technique"

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https://phys.org/news/2025-07-significantly-optical-chip.html