Artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of our digital economy, and its demands on infrastructure are unlike anything the semiconductor industry has encountered before. Data centers are straining under the weight of exponential growth in compute workloads and bandwidth requirements. Electrical interconnects, the backbone of current systems, are showing their limits in latency, heat, and […]

The HNDL threat crypto agility can’t address HNDL attacks pose existential threats to long-lived sensitive data. Adversaries intercept and store encrypted communications today, then decrypt them when quantum computers or cryptanalytic breakthroughs emerge years later. This isn’t theoretical—intelligence agencies have long pursued bulk data collection with precisely this strategy. PQC advocates invoke “crypto agility”—swapping cryptographic

For two decades, terahertz technology carried the promise of nondestructive, material-specific insights but remained primarily confined to research labs. The scientific community was impressed with demonstrations of nondestructive, label-free probing through polymers, coatings, and tablets, resolving structures on picosecond timescales, and detecting spectral fingerprints of water and other materials. But the systems were large, alignment-sensitive,

A new diode nanocavity created by a team of researchers at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and quantum company Photonic Inc. in Canada enables optical and electrical control of silicon “color center” qubits. Until now, these qubits, a.k.a. T centers, were controlled optically with lasers. This dual control option of T centers hints at potential applications

Light is the fastest and cleanest carrier of information we know. The science and technology of guiding, manipulating, and detecting light—photonics—underpins every facet of modern life, from the global internet and medical imaging to precision manufacturing and autonomous sensing. For decades, the photonics industry has flourished in an environment of predictability. Much of linear optics