{"id":457528,"date":"2025-12-19T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/457528\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:02:41","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\/us\/457528\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese team builds optical chip AI that is 100 times faster than Nvidia\u2019s market leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have unveiled an <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3315496\/light-us-sanctions-china-unveils-first-parallel-optical-computing-chip-meteor-1?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">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 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">artificial intelligence workloads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The research, led by Professor Chen Yitong from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was published in the journal Science on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3335997\/ais-us400-billion-problem-are-chips-getting-old-too-fast?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":457529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,304,209329,209330,1671,147803,84591,76058,158,21751,67,132,68,209331],"class_list":{"0":"post-457528","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-generative-ai","11":"tag-image-synthesis","12":"tag-lightgen","13":"tag-nvidia","14":"tag-optical-computing","15":"tag-photonic-computing","16":"tag-shanghai-jiao-tong-university","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-tsinghua-university","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-video-production"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115745662113870616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}