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Friday, February 7, 2020

Short Article: Could Photonic Chips Outpace the Fastest Supercomputers?

Title:
Could Photonic Chips Outpace the Fastest Supercomputers?

Author:
Edd Gent

Published:
SingularityHub, 3 February 2020

From the article:
"Now Chinese researchers have put a photonic chip to work tackling a fiendishly complex computer science challenge called the subset sum problem in a paper in Science Advances. It has some potential applications in cryptography and resource allocation, but primarily it’s used as a benchmark to test the limits of computing."

To read this article:
https://singularityhub.com/2020/02/03/could-photonic-chips-outpace-the-fastest-supercomputers/