{"id":136717,"date":"2022-03-11T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/beating-moores-law-this-photonic-computer-is-10x-faster-than-nvidia-gpus-using-90-less-energy"},"modified":"2022-03-11T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:24:52","slug":"beating-moores-law-this-photonic-computer-is-10x-faster-than-nvidia-gpus-using-90-less-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/beating-moores-law-this-photonic-computer-is-10x-faster-than-nvidia-gpus-using-90-less-energy","title":{"rendered":"Beating Moore\u2019s Law: This photonic computer is 10X faster than NVIDIA GPUs using 90% less energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1R7ElXEyag?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s Law is dead, right? Not if we can get working photonic computers.<\/p>\n<p>Lightmatter is building a photonic computer for the biggest growth area in computing right now, and according to CEO Nick Harris, it can be ordered now and will ship at the end of this year. It\u2019s already much faster than traditional electronic computers a neural nets, machine learning for language processing, and AI for self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the world\u2019s first general purpose photonic AI accelerator, and with light multiplexing \u2014 using up to 64 different colors of light simultaneously \u2014 there\u2019s long path of speed improvements ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<br \/> TechFirst transcripts: <a href=\"https:\/\/johnkoetsier.com\/category\/tech-first\/\">https:\/\/johnkoetsier.com\/category\/tech-first\/<\/a><br \/> Forbes columns: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnkoetsier\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnkoetsier\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep in touch: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnkoetsier\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnkoetsier<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moore\u2019s Law is dead, right? Not if we can get working photonic computers. Lightmatter is building a photonic computer for the biggest growth area in computing right now, and according to CEO Nick Harris, it can be ordered now and will ship at the end of this year. It\u2019s already much faster than traditional electronic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136717","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}