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 recent paper ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

Nadella took to X, formerly Twitter, saying Microsoft's "breakthrough work on an analog optical computer points to new ways to solve complex real-world problems with much greater efficiency. He added ...

We are all used to modular construction in the analogue synth world, to the extent that there’s an accepted standard for it in EuroRack. But the same techniques are just as useful wherever else ...

Microsoft’s Experimental Optical Computer Could Run AI Workloads With Less Energy Your email has been sent Research conducted by the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge could contribute to the ...