An international research team led by Skoltech and IBMResearch has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation of computers manipulating photons rather than electrons.
In addition to direct power saving, the switch requires no cooling and is really fast: at 1 trillion operations per second, it is between 100 and 1,000 times faster than today’s top-notch commercial transistors.
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