If your gate gets 50x50x50 times bigger, you need some pretty extreme savings per area/volume of circuit if you want to reduce the per-gate usage. Can they save that much?
I would think yes. Which would be something. Huge rooms of enormous optical computers running lightening fast on low power would have a kind of retro future feel.
Light would reduce the time cost of distance, and increase the density of connections (optical signals can pass through each other) so this could actually work.
Light would reduce the time cost of distance, and increase the density of connections (optical signals can pass through each other) so this could actually work.