China's Optical Chip, Explained: How a Peking University System Ran AI Inference 100x Faster on One-Ninth the Compute
China's Optical Chip, Explained: How a Peking University System Ran AI Inference 100x Faster on One-Ninth the Compute
In July 2026, a Peking University team reported an optical interconnect system that ran a distributed AI inference task more than 100 times faster while using about one-ninth