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

Engineers have reached a theoretical limit for efficiently converting analog data into digital bits in an emerging computer technology. The future of computing may be analog. The digital design of our ...

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

A computer that processes analog data is known as an analog computer. Analog computers store information in physical quantities in a continuous format and use measurements to perform computation.

Microsoft Research has developed an analog optical computer (AOC) that uses light to solve complex problems.

A device that processes infinitely varying signals, such as voltage or frequencies. A thermometer is a simple analog computer. As the temperature varies, the mercury moves correspondingly. A slide ...

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

When you think of analog computing, it’s possible you don’t typically think of FPGAs. Sure, a few FPGAs will have specialized analog blocks, but usually they are digital devices. [Bruce Land] — a name ...

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

There are many different schemes for making quantum computers work (most of them evil). But they pretty much all fall into two categories. In most labs, researchers work on what could be called a ...