About LightIC
LightIC is a China-based company listed as working on photonic in-memory computing with phase-change materials. Photonic computing uses light instead of electric current to carry out calculations, and phase-change materials are substances that switch between two physical states and can hold a value that light can read. This record needs checking against the company's own sources, since the name is also used by a silicon photonics lidar maker.
LightIC. It is listed under Photonic Computing, In-Memory Computing.
Compute Technologies
- Photonics
- In-Memory Computing
What LightIC works on
Photonic Computing
Photonic computing uses light instead of electricity to carry or process information. Photons have no charge, so light in a waveguide does not cause the resistive heating that current in a wire does, though lasers and modulators still use power, and many wavelengths can share one waveguide. The industry has two quite different parts: moving data with light, and computing with light.
In-Memory Computing
In-memory computing does calculations inside or right next to the memory that stores the data, instead of copying the data to a separate processor. It is also called processing-in-memory (PIM) or compute-in-memory.
Also in China
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