{"id":221556,"date":"2025-09-08T20:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/light-based-chip-can-boost-power-efficiency-of-ai-tasks-up-to-100-fold"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:09:16","slug":"light-based-chip-can-boost-power-efficiency-of-ai-tasks-up-to-100-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/light-based-chip-can-boost-power-efficiency-of-ai-tasks-up-to-100-fold","title":{"rendered":"Light-based chip can boost power efficiency of AI tasks up to 100-fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-based-chip-can-boost-power-efficiency-of-ai-tasks-up-to-100-fold2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team at the University of Florida has developed a new kind of computer chip that uses light with electricity to perform one of the most power-intensive parts of artificial intelligence\u2014image recognition and similar pattern-finding tasks. Using light dramatically cuts the power needed to perform these tasks, with efficiency 10 or even 100 times that of current chips performing the same calculations. Using this approach could help rein in the enormous demand for electricity that is straining power grids while enabling higher performance AI models and systems.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly central to technology, powering everything from facial recognition to language translation. But as AI models grow more complex, they consume vast amounts of electricity\u2014posing challenges for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+efficiency\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy efficiency<\/a> and sustainability. A new chip developed by researchers at the University of Florida could help address this issue by using light, rather than just electricity, to perform one of AI\u2019s most power-hungry tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiedigitallibrary.org\/journals\/advanced-photonics\/volume-7\/issue-05\/056007\/Near-energy-free-photonic-Fourier-transformation-for-convolution-operation-acceleration\/10.1117\/1.AP.7.5.056007.full\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in Advanced Photonics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team at the University of Florida has developed a new kind of computer chip that uses light with electricity to perform one of the most power-intensive parts of artificial intelligence\u2014image recognition and similar pattern-finding tasks. Using light dramatically cuts the power needed to perform these tasks, with efficiency 10 or even 100 times that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221556","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=221556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}