A Microsoft analog optical computer has solved two optimization problems and shown potential for AI workloads using less energy.

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more ...

The prototype is built from commercially available parts, including micro-LEDs, optical lenses, and sensors from smartphone ...

Research conducted by the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge could contribute to the development of AI accelerators.

The constant scaling of AI applications and other digital technologies across industries is beginning to tax the energy grid ...

Early computers could perform fairly complex calculations just by arranging a few analog circuits. By choosing appropriate resistor and capacitor values, arithmetic summers, integrators, and ...

A new compiler for analog computers has been developed, a program that translates between high-level instructions written in a language intelligible to humans and the low-level specifications of ...

In my last column, I showed you how to build an analog computer that simulates the motion of a car over its wheel when stimulated by a "bump" (electronic design, March 31, p. 20). Could these systems ...