35 points peter_d_sherman 3 days ago 16 comments

mbfg 2 hours ago | parent

interesting that it is still 2 bit

12ah5kl 1 hour ago | parent

Interesting topic, unreadable due to sloppification.

yuhmahp 47 minutes ago | parent

Now it's a good case to use your own ai to un-sloppify

natas 1 hour ago | parent

This has been tried by Cray like 15 years ago and the university of Colorado 11 years ago; there were also other initiatives, all failed.

I'm not excluding that now we have more budget/time/AI to make it work (if it can), I'd just say exercise caution reading this (very AI slop) article (and anything that looks too good to be true)

dvh 1 hour ago | parent

> Photonics

So also 1000x smaller integration

amelius 54 minutes ago | parent

Why?

amelius 53 minutes ago | parent

So they have some kind of nonlinear material that can make light modulate other light, that they managed to get working at teraherz frequencies?

Sounds incredible, as in: can't believe it.

By the way, isn't Nvidia researching this?

octoberfranklin 50 minutes ago | parent

Yes; this material is called "snake oil".

amelius 45 minutes ago | parent

Let's see if the investors bite.

wartywhoa23 17 minutes ago | parent

Theranos demonstrated that they'll bite at anything.

ziofill 18 minutes ago | parent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_optics

Very real stuff (I have a PhD on this)

himata4113 37 minutes ago | parent

This comes up every couple of years, but it hasn't seem to have made any advances since the first time I've seen this.

akifbayram 32 minutes ago | parent

The channel's other uploads may be giving us a glimpse into this project's future.

JoshTriplett 27 minutes ago | parent

Yup. UFO conspiracies, aliens on the moon, PSI...

metalman 26 minutes ago | parent

akhetonics-photonic-computing 1000x-faster-cpus, in mice

jurschreuder 19 minutes ago | parent

It's just as if he had the brilliant idea to do photonics as an outcast even though there is already a 6" wafer semi-production level fablab being built for it in The Netherlands. There is even a version of TinyTapeout for Photonics.