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by d--b 2870 days ago
I can't read the article as it's behind a paywall, but if you can make a chip that's 100% optical, then it means that when you beam your input data at the input end of the chip, you _instantly_ get the output at the end. No need for cycles for multiplying, adding and so on. Plus it wouldn't heat up like silicon does.
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you _instantly_ get the output

That's not how physics works, unfortunately.