Neowin News Feed for: Photonics

Science makes an enlightening discovery that could rewrite what we know of physics

Sayan Sen — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:58:01 +0000

Scientists have uncovered a groundbreaking phenomenon involving light itself, a discovery that could fundamentally rewrite humanity's current understanding of physics. Read more...

Wave or Particle? One of the biggest ever mysteries has been cracked

Sayan Sen — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:30:01 +0000

Wave or particle? Science continues to unravel one of humanity's greatest mysteries in this universe in rather useful ways. Read more...

MIT sees astonishing light-speed 6G processing with its new "100 times faster" chip

Sayan Sen — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:28:01 +0000

MIT's pioneering optical AI chip uses photonics and the power of light-speed, promising way better 6G speeds. Read more...

£22 million funding to give boost to UK semiconductor R&D

Paul Hill — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 06:42:11 +0000

The UK government has invested a total of £22 million in two research hubs to turn research into business realities. The government hopes that this investment will put the UK ahead in semiconductors. Read more...

Intel shows promising progress and key advances in integrated photonics for data centers

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:00:09 +0000

In the path towards improving data flow and networking in data centers, Intel showed off key advances like the tight coupling of CMOS technologies with photonics and miniature micro-ring modulators. Read more...

HP Discover: Memrister and photonics and hype, oh my?

Christopher White — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:16:22 +0000

Meg Whitman gave an excellent keynote presentation, and one of topics was products that HP Labs is working on, including photonics and memrister technologies. Are these real products or purely hype? Read more...