China’s New Photoelectronic Chip: Over 3,000x Faster and 4 Million Times More Efficient than State-of-the-Art GPUs for Vision Workloads

Tsinghua team develops breakthrough chip harnessing light and electronics to massively outperform GPUs for vision tasks.

Just as the US government is imposing new restrictions on the sale of advanced GPUs to China, aiming to hinder its development in AI, researchers from Tsinghua University have achieved a surprising b…