Artistic rendering of a photonic chip with both light and RF frequency encoding data. Image credit: B.Dong / University of Oxford. A breakthrough development in photonic-electronic hardware could ...

Researchers have developed a microwave photonic chip that is capable of performing ultrafast analog electronic signal processing and computation using optics. A research team led by Professor Wang ...

The advent of the cathode ray tube. A look at display controllers, including the NEC µPD7220 and IBM VGA. How GPUs ushered in a new era of graphics display. The latest in graphics from 3D displays and ...

Despite the long-acknowledged advantages of electronic processing of invoices and payments, companies have been slow to let go of paper. The Web is changing all that. For the past 20 years, technology ...

How a single silicon chip was designed to be microwave and optical signal-processing engine. The various roles for which this engine can be reconfigured. The performance considerations that were ...

Modern information technology (IT) relies on division of labour. Photons carry data around the world and electrons process them. But, before optical fibres, electrons did both—and some people hope to ...