Reply to post: Re: "Provided these opto-processors make it out of the lab"

Here's one way past Moore's law: Chips that mix photonics and electronics

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: "Provided these opto-processors make it out of the lab"

>Call me back when they have a product that sells.

Well, given they say a good application is linear matrix computations, it would seem the production of a linear matrix computations "co-processor" - in a similar vein to the floating-point maths co-processor (remember the 8087 through to 80387 series of math coprocessors), would be in order.

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