Chinese scientists have developed a reconfigurable integrated photonic chip capable of running diverse neural networks, including those for image and speech processing, with high efficiency.
Key Details
- 1The chip integrates microring resonators and Mach-Zehnder interferometers, powered by a soliton microcomb light source.
- 2Supports fully-connected, convolutional, and recurrent neural networks within a single hardware architecture.
- 3Area efficiency reaches up to 2.45 TOPS/mm² at 10 GHz frequency.
- 4Demonstrated on tasks: image classification (MNIST 92.93% accuracy, CIFAR-10 56.57%), sentiment analysis (IMDB 80.81%), and speech recognition.
- 5Device enables dual-path computation per resonator, doubling throughput versus traditional schemes.
Why It Matters
This advance shows that photonic computing chips can support the flexible and scalable deployment of multi-model neural networks for imaging and multimodal AI tasks on efficient, high-throughput hardware. Such technology may lead to breakthroughs in hardware acceleration for radiology AI and similar domains.
Source
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