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Wayne Williams

Laser Processing Units could give traditional CPUs, GPUs and quantum computers a run for their money - but don’t expect them to run Windows anytime soon

LightSolver Laser Processing Unit.
  • LightSolver unveils Laser Processor Unit designed to solve physics equations at high speed
  • Laser computing system uses optical memory to avoid processor and memory data bottlenecks
  • Company begins offering early lab access with roadmap to one million variables by 2029

Laser-based computing is emerging as a potential challenger to established high-performance computing systems, with LightSolver revealing what it calls a Laser Processing Unit (LPU).

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