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

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

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

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more efficient approach for specific applications. The authors behind a ...

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

Microsoft has built a prototype computer that uses light and analog signals instead of traditional binary computing.

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

Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an enduring mystery surrounding what it was used for. Now ...

Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism has captured the imaginations of archaeologists and scientists with penchant for antiquity. A ...

In the first of three parts, Andy hypothesizes that the K2-W Analog Computer Op Amp’s design has some unrevealed mad science in its input-stage design. 1. K2-W Op Amp schematic from Bob Pease’s ...

Our new tech editor for Analog looks at the evolution of “analog” and how it inadvertently spun off a pop music genre. Operational Amplifiers are exactly that—amplifiers that can perform mathematical ...