The rapid growth of AI is pushing conventional electronic computing towards its limits, with rising energy consumption, heat and infrastructure costs creating an increasingly difficult scaling challenge. In this article for Laser Focus World, Optalysys CTO Robert Todd explores why sustaining the next generation of AI will require a fundamental shift in computing physics — and how photonic computing can deliver the performance and energy efficiency needed to make that future possible.

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