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Could China’s photonic chips help it leapfrog US on AI?
China opened a top-level optical computing laboratory in Shanghai after breakthroughs in photonic chips that could bypass US restrictions on AI development. The country began limited production of locally designed photonic chips, which use photons instead of silicon to process data.
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