Researchers Develop Light-Based Chip Boosting AI Power Efficiency 100-Fold
A University of Florida team published research detailing a new optical chip that performs key AI computations with significantly less energy.
A Leap in Efficiency
A team of engineers at the University of Florida has developed a new type of computer chip that uses light instead of electricity to perform key artificial intelligence computations. The research, published on September 8, 2025, in the journal Advanced Photonics, details a chip that is 10 to 100 times more power-efficient than existing electronic chips performing the same tasks.
The development addresses the growing energy consumption of AI data centers, which is a primary physical bottleneck to scaling the technology. "Performing a key machine learning computation at near zero energy is a leap forward …
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