Intel, NTT, SK Hynix in optical processing project – report
US chip giant Intel is working with Japan’s leading telecommunications operator NTT and Korea’s SK Hynix to develop production technology for optical processors, according to Nikkei.
The Japanese government is providing 45 billion yen (about US$305 million) to support the project and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry reckons it is technology Japan can lead the world in, Nikkei said.
The project is expected to have established a production technology for optical processing components by fiscal 2027. The goal of the project is to reduce power consumption by 30 to 40 percent compared to conventional products.
Data is typical transmitted optically over long distances and even within backplanes in data centers. But it is conventionally then converted to electronic signals for processing. The use of optical processing should be able to improve parallelism, performance and energy efficiency while also avoiding he energy cost of optoelectronic conversion.
There are already numerous optical processing startups and many are looking to find application in AI processing.
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