Lightmatter Develops Low Power AI Chip That Uses Light For Processing And Internal Comms.
Lightmatter Develops Low Power AI Chip – Lightmatter has developed a photonic computing chip that uses beams of light to perform calculations and transmit data to get around the limitations of electronic chips, which use vast amounts of power and generate signifant heat.
Lightmatter’s photonic processing technology aims to address the growing energy and speed demands of artificial intelligence workloads, which often require the processing efforts of many computers. The Lightmatter chip, fabricated in partnership with GlobalFoundries, departs from traditional transistor-based design by measuring the interaction of controlled light beams to carry out computation.
Where previous photonic systems lost accuracy with small numbers, Lightmatter’s architecture segments numerical data to preserve detail across a wide dynamic range. According to Lightmatter, its system can match the precision of conventional processors on some current AI workloads.
The breakthrough, published in Nature, may offer a path to more energy-efficient computation for AI processers, including those used for video analytics in complex angles of view, which is the most AI’s most demanding processing task.
Though commercial use remains in the future there’s considerable blue sky over Lightmatter – the company was recently valued at US$4.4 billion following an $850 million capital raise.
You can learn more about Lightmatter here or read more SEN news here.
“Lightmatter Develops Low Power AI Chip That Uses Light For Processing And Internal Comms.”
