YC Paper Club Call: Optical Compute, Diamond Chips, and Bio-GPUs
ycombinator · x · 2026-09-02
YC Paper Club is seeking presenters on 'alternative compute paradigms' for Sept 23. Proposed topics include #1 optical compute to reduce energy conversion loss, #2 synthetic doped diamonds as a 20x cheaper silicon replacement, and #3 bio-GPUs using clusters of neurons. Quantum computing is also mentioned.
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