In-memory computing using light-driven molecular reoriented liquid crystals scales to 9.44M vectorial neurons; 100,000X more memory

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1142384

"scalable, large-scale, non-volatile, tackles von Neumann memory bottleneck/ energy limits of digital electronics for AI... light polarization trajectories programmed across connected Poincaré spheres in nonvolatile manner enables massively programmable interconnections among vectorial neurons... senses, computes, records multi-dimensional light fields... supports light-speed retrieval of 576 polarization-encoding channels... scalable, energy-efficient AI/ machine vision"