China Just Launched Its First National Photonic Computing Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong, and the AI-by-Light Bet Is the Cleanest Workaround to US Chip Curbs Yet (opens in new tab)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University launched the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrated Photonic Computing Chips and Systems under Director Zou Weiwen, the first national-level Chinese photonic-computing platform, with a charter to develop the photonic-chip-architecture, silicon-photonics-integration, optical-component and AI-application software stack that the cumulative US export-control framework on conventional electronic AI accelerators has been driving Chinese AI laboratories to adopt as the c...