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A superconducting optoelectronic network claims a millionfold speedup

development2026-03-17

Claim

Great Sky launched a superconducting optoelectronic network using light to communicate data, claiming millionfold video processing speedups over conventional GPUs at lower energy.

Reported metric: 10^6 speedup

Reporting date: 2026-03-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to March 17, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Great Sky

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Supersedes

Intel accelerates fully homomorphic encryption five thousandfold

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A superconducting optoelectronic network claims a millionfold speedup
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Reporting date: 2026-03-17
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-17-light-based-network-claims-millionfold-speedup
Claim: Great Sky launched a superconducting optoelectronic network using light to communicate data, claiming millionfold video processing speedups over conventional GPUs at lower energy.
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- Welcome to March 17, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-17-2026
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