Every time a smartphone snaps a photo, millions of tiny light detectors capture the scene and then ferry all that raw data across the chip to a separate processor for storage and number-crunching.

Researchers in China have introduced an intelligent photonic sensing-computing chip capable of processing one hundred billion pixels in just 6 nanoseconds. This groundbreaking development promises to ...

Behind every great image taken by a camera phone there's a huge amount of electronic / optical / mechanical magic taking place. Camera users are normally oblivious to this magic since it happens so ...