{"id":240392,"date":"2025-12-19T04:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240392\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T04:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:19:12","slug":"chinese-team-builds-optical-chip-ai-that-is-100-times-faster-than-nvidias-market-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240392\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese team builds optical chip AI that is 100 times faster than Nvidia\u2019s market leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese scientists have unveiled an optical computing<\/a> chip that outperformed Nvidia\u2019s leading AI hardware by over a hundredfold in speed and energy efficiency \u2013 particularly for generative tasks such as video production and image synthesis.The LightGen chip was developed by a team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tsinghua University, harnessing the speed of light to execute complex artificial intelligence workloads<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With more than 2 million photonic neurons integrated into a compact chip, LightGen can generate high-resolution images, including 3D scenes, and create videos.<\/p>\n

The research, led by Professor Chen Yitong from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was published in the journal Science on Friday.<\/p>\n

Chen said LightGen could be \u201cfurther scaled up\u201d and added: \u201cIt provides a new way to bridge the new chip architectures to daily complicated AI without impairment of performance<\/a> and with speed and efficiency that are orders of magnitude greater, for sustainable AI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists have unveiled an optical computing chip that outperformed Nvidia\u2019s leading AI hardware by over a hundredfold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,5568,19,126716,17,126717,292,34968,7904,74986,82,2636,23184],"class_list":{"0":"post-240392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-generative-ai","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-image-synthesis","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-lightgen","17":"tag-nvidia","18":"tag-optical-computing","19":"tag-photonic-computing","20":"tag-shanghai-jiao-tong-university","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-tsinghua-university","23":"tag-video-production"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115744313360886382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}