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Researchers have developed a new intelligent photonic sensing-computing chip that can process, transmit and reconstruct images of a scene within nanoseconds. Credit: Wei Wu, Tsinghua University
The new intelligent optical computational array chip performs end-to-end image processing, transmission and reconstruction by integrating sensing and computing on one chip. Credit: Wei Wu, Tsinghua University, Optica Publishing Group’s journal for high-impact research, the researchers describe the new chip, which they call an optical parallel computational array chip.
Research team leader Lu Fang, team members Tian Kuang Zhou and Wei Wu are pictured with the chip test system. Credit: Wei Wu, Tsinghua University“The world is entering an AI era, but AI is very time- and energy-exhaustive,” said Fang. “Meanwhile, the growth of edge devices, such as smartphones, intelligent cars and laptops has resulted in explosive growth of image data to be processed, transmitted and displayed.
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