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Photonic Chips Are Coming Faster Than Anyone Expected – Akhetonics [video]

4 points| starwatch | 2 months ago |youtube.com

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starwatch|2 months ago

Their chat about the limitations of optical memory made me think of Magneto-Optic (MO) memory cells [0] that I read about earlier this year. From what I understood (not an expert - so I'm open to correction) we move away from Von Neumann, to something where memory is a "filter" that light passes through rather than a bucket of data that needs to be moved around.

Overall it’s interesting to me that we can trade a bigger size to get more speed.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-024-01549-1