{"id":166867,"date":"2023-07-04T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/microsofts-light-based-computer-marks-the-unravelling-of-moores-law"},"modified":"2023-07-04T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T16:22:32","slug":"microsofts-light-based-computer-marks-the-unravelling-of-moores-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/microsofts-light-based-computer-marks-the-unravelling-of-moores-law","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s light-based computer marks \u2018the unravelling of Moore\u2019s Law\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsofts-light-based-computer-marks-the-unravelling-of-moores-law3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presenting its findings as \u201cUnlocking the future of computing\u201d Microsoft is edging ever closer to photon computing technology with the <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&mid=24542&u1=pcg-us-1139099390862694400&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fresearch%2Fproject%2Faim%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\">Analog Iterative Machine<\/a> (AIM). Right now, the light-based machine is being licensed for use in financial institutions, to help navigate the endlessly complex data flowing through them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?id=kXQk6%2AivFEQ&mid=24542&u1=pcg-us-3726209184382494000&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fresearch%2Fblog%2Funlocking-the-future-of-computing-the-analog-iterative-machines-lightning-fast-approach-to-optimization%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\">Microsoft Research Blog<\/a>, \u201cMicrosoft researchers have been developing a new kind of analog optical computer that uses photons and electrons to process continuous value data, unlike today\u2019s digital computers that use transistors to crunch through binary data\u201d (via <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.hardware.info\/nieuws\/85596\/microsoft-onthult-analoge-optische-computer-waar-fotonen-en-elektronen-de-data-bewerken\" target=\"_blank\">Hardware Info<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting its findings as \u201cUnlocking the future of computing\u201d Microsoft is edging ever closer to photon computing technology with the Analog Iterative Machine (AIM). Right now, the light-based machine is being licensed for use in financial institutions, to help navigate the endlessly complex data flowing through them. According to the Microsoft Research Blog, \u201cMicrosoft researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166867","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}