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Chinese team builds optical chip AI that is 100 times faster than Nvidia’s market leader (www.scmp.com)
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[–] -1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

100 times faster than 5090 ? While also being more efficient?

This thing need deeeper dive, sound too good to be true.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    That would be the A100, not the 5090.

    From what I can gather, the catch is that this is optical computing, which is up there with quantum computing as things that would be pretty great but good luck making it feasible, let alone mass produce it. You're not putting one in your home PC anytime soon, but hey, technology moves fast.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's like saying silicon chips being orders of magnitude faster than vacuum tubes sounds too good to be true. Different substrate will have fundamentally different properties from silicon.

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