What a fun day at @imec_int ITF World conference.
The bottom line:
→ The future of technology looks very stacked.
→ Scaling is no longer just about shrinking transistors.
🚨The biggest transition happening in next-gen computing right now.
A quick thread from my recent keynote — on why photonics is rising and the top companies to watch in this space:
5. Add a DAC — and now the same device can perform analog multiplication — multiplying input light with an analog weight. That’s the basis of matrix multiply–accumulate (MAC), the core operation behind many AI workloads.
Energy is so fundamental. Energy = power x time.. and timing here is everything. You can put lots of power, but if it’s not at the right time, it doesn’t matter 🙂