{"id":129675,"date":"2021-10-29T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T21:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/goodbye-transistor-new-optical-switches-offer-up-to-1000x-better-performance"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T21:22:39","slug":"goodbye-transistor-new-optical-switches-offer-up-to-1000x-better-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/goodbye-transistor-new-optical-switches-offer-up-to-1000x-better-performance","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Transistor? New Optical Switches Offer up to 1,000x Better Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/goodbye-transistor-new-optical-switches-offer-up-to-1000x-better-performance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Optical Accelerators\u2019 ditch electricity, favoring light as an exchange medium.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers with IBM and Moscow\u2019s Skolkovo Institute have developed \u201coptical accelerators\u201d \u2014 optical switches that use light instead of electricity to convey state changes and transmit information. The inventors claim an up to 1,000x speedup compared to traditional transistor-based switches \u2014 and there are applications for both classical and quantum computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Optical Accelerators\u2019 ditch electricity, favoring light as an exchange medium. Researchers with IBM and Moscow\u2019s Skolkovo Institute have developed \u201coptical accelerators\u201d \u2014 optical switches that use light instead of electricity to convey state changes and transmit information. The inventors claim an up to 1,000x speedup compared to traditional transistor-based switches \u2014 and there are applications [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}