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Cognifiber Photonic Chip

07.04.2022

Engineers at Israeli startup Cognifiber have created a photonic chip designed specifically for edge computing, an infrastructure that eliminates the need for businesses to connect to the cloud. Cognifiber's goal is to miniaturize photonics as much as possible in order to replace silicon - a key component of modern chips - with cheaper and more affordable glass. The startup claims that its solution, among other things, reduces the cost of AI / ML training by 80%.

Cognifiber focuses on photonic computing but goes further than today's startups in the same field. As a rule, developers use photonics as a communication center between racks in data centers. At the same time, Cognifiber is working on a first-of-its-kind chip that will do the calculations on its own. In the future, such a system will be useful to everyone - from manufacturers of miniature IoT devices to companies that manage the largest data centers.

"The combination of photonic glass chips advances our edge solution to quickly apply artificial intelligence and machine learning locally to edge devices that are currently limited in capacity and power handling," said Zeev Zalewski, co-founder and CTO of Cognifiber.

Cognifiber technology is based on a fiber computing methodology that uses analog machine learning networks to process data in a fiber optic cable. Engineers have extended this approach to processors built on a glass substrate coated with commercially available dopants. The company claims that, like conventional chips, Cognifiber chips can be programmed and reconfigured, similar to field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

The system already supports both linear and non-linear operations, making the technology a suitable solution for running AI. Preliminary calculations by Cognifiber also show that fiber processing can improve computer performance by 100x and reduce the cost of AI/ML training by 80%.

"The downsizing potential of using glass-based photonic chips coupled with our proprietary fiber optic cables promises to bring high-performance servers to the edge, eliminating many existing IT infrastructure bottlenecks and significantly reducing power consumption," said Cognifiber CEO Eyal Cohen. He also added that Cognifiber technology will be useful for many industries where large amounts of data are generated, including unmanned vehicles, drones, consumer electronics and data centers.

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