February 19, 2018
As Moore’s Law collapses and we reach the limits of what normal processors can do, unconventional techniques—often dismissed in the past as too complex—start looking like feasible ways to bite off niche computing problems and gain speed advantages. A UK startup called Optalysys thinks optical computing, which has failed to live up to its promise for years, could be used to spot similarities in large data sets like genomes (see “Computing with lasers could power up genomics and AI”).
Source: MIT Tech Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610093/geneticists-are-using-laser-powered-chips-to-search-through-dna-faster/
