project

FLARE

Fully in-memory large-scale photonic computing architecture presented in the paper, combining photonic and electronic mechanisms into reconfigurable photonic neurons with long- and short-term memory; demonstrated as a monolithic 7,378-neuron multicore chip and a ten-core multilayer system.

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FLARE architecture
fully in-memory large-scale photonic computing architecture

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A 7,378-neuron photonic chip reports 61.87 attojoules per operation flying a drone

FLARE keeps memory inside the optical layer, holds state for 7.45 seconds, and reports a system-level energy figure that inverts to about 16 peta-ops per watt. The operation itself is undefined.

Publishers:nature.com

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