Tech Tuesday: FSI Hosted the Annual Florida Semiconductor Summit (WCJB TV20)
In this week’s Tech Tuesday, UF Innovate spotlights the 2026 Florida Semiconductor Summit. Hosted by the Florida Semiconductor Institute (FSI), the annual summit brought together industry leaders to explore advancements and the growing role of semiconductor manufacturing in Florida.
Florida Engineers Test Photonic AI Chips in Space (UF News)
The University of Florida, in collaboration with NASA, MIT, Vanguard Automation, AIM Photonics and Germany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, launched a suite of photonic AI chips to the International Space Station aboard JAXA’s HTV-XI spacecraft this weekend.
New Light-Based Chip Boosts Power Efficiency of AI Tasks 100 Fold (UF News)
UF researchers have developed a new kind of computer chip that uses light instead of electricity to perform one of the most power-intensive parts of artificial intelligence — image recognition and similar pattern-finding tasks.