Microsoft has built an analog optical computer that uses light instead of silicon, promising 100x gains in speed and ...

Research conducted by the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge could contribute to the development of AI accelerators.

A Microsoft analog optical computer has solved two optimization problems and shown potential for AI workloads using less energy.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hailed a research breakthrough as the company unveiled an analog optical computer built with ...

The prototype is built from commercially available parts, including micro-LEDs, optical lenses, and sensors from smartphone ...

What does analog computer actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

Analog computers were extensively utilized for scientific and industrial purposes well after the invention of digital computers, as evidenced by their specification and available size.

Engineers have reached a theoretical limit for efficiently converting analog data into digital bits in an emerging computer technology.

It was rarely done. But as digital computers got faster, it soon became apparent they were going to give analog computers some competition.

A digital computer deals with numbers as integers and anything that isn’t is actually some representation with some limit.