Issue 05 | May 2025
Forging New Frontiers
Research Centre
Shining a light on chip chatter
From lab concept to real-world integration, a multiinstitutional collaboration produces a compact photonic modulator-memory device that turbocharges how data moves between computer chips — more efficiently, with far less energy.
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s the world’s voracious appetite for data grows ever larger, so too does the need for microelectronic systems to keep up. From data centres to AI processors to edge computing to next-generation communications, tomorrow’s technologies will need faster, more efficient ways for chips to talk to each other.
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