The constant scaling of AI applications and other digital technologies across industries is beginning to tax the energy grid ...

A new study indicates that a computer that uses light instead of digital switches for computation may help reduce the energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI). The scientists who invented this ...

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

A computer that uses light rather than digital switches for calculations could help reduce the energy demands of artificial ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

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

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.

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

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