News Optical Chip Promises Massive Speedups Over GPUs For Some Algorithims

[Admin]

Lightelligence announced that it has taped out its Photonic Arithmetic Computing Engine (PACE), a light-based, fully integrated computing system that promises to accelerate Machine Learning with the speed of light. In certain workloads, it can deliver up to 25x the performance of an NVIDIA RTX 3080.

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[thisisaname]

Comparing it's fastest thing with the slowest of the 3080?

Is it 350 or 25 times, I see 350 in the article but 25 time in the snippet in the first post.

 

[renz496]

Then nvidia will just adopt similar tech for their gpu. In the past that's how nvidia end up adopting tensor core with their GV100 to accelerate ML performance, retiring GP100 just a year after it's initial launch.

 

[jkflipflop98]

Yes, another optical based chip that's going to blow the doors off everything else. Where have I heard this one before?

 

[Krotow]

Yes, another optical based chip that's going to blow the doors off everything else. Where have I heard this one before?

If it will be just enough for mining, it will have glorious future

 

[deesider]

Comparing it's fastest thing with the slowest of the 3080?

Is it 350 or 25 times, I see 350 in the article but 25 time in the snippet in the first post.

25 times refers to the speed increase compared to an ASIC designed for that problem