Presenting its findings as "Unlocking the future of computing" Microsoft is edging ever closer to photon computing technology with the Analog Iterative Machine (AIM). Right now, the light-ba

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    1 year ago

    IBM has been working on optical chips since the early 2000s, but still hasn’t released one yet. Maybe this news will get them to show off what they’ve got now if they’re still working on it

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      Knowing IBM they could have got these things working in the 2010s and then just never done anything with it; that company has a history of pre-empting major breakthroughs and then just leaving them collecting dust in a basement.