"Light-Powered Super Chip: Revolutionizing AI Processing at Unprecedented Speeds"
Penn Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform complex mathematical computations essential to training AI, promising faster processing speeds, reduced energy consumption, and enhanced data privacy. The chip's design combines nanoscale manipulation of materials with silicon photonics, offering potential applications in accelerating AI systems and graphics processing units, while also rendering future computers virtually unhackable due to simultaneous computations that eliminate the need to store sensitive information in working memory.