NIST Partners With Company on Developing Faster Chips
(TNS) — The National Institute of Standards and Technology has forged a research and development partnership with AIM Photonics, a federally funded consortium at Albany Nanotech that develops photon-based computer chips.
NIST, part of the Department of Commerce, will work with AIM Photonics on ultra-fast chips that use both electrons and photons, or light, to carry data.
Such chips are key to powering things like fiber optic networks, high-performance computer facilities, laser-guided missiles and medical sensors.
