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#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

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Using Light for Communication in a Microchip?

The ability of each neuron to communicate to many thousands of colleagues across the network is indispensable. So coming from a background in photonics, it was very natural to say, okay, we're going to use light for communication. If we had a light source on a silicon chip that was as simple as a transistor, there would not be a processor in the world that didn't use light for communications above some distance.

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