Breaking Moore’s Law: New photonic computing project aims to speed up artificial intelligence computing power to petascale processing levels. The EU’s new 5.8 million Euro project using light to provide the ultrafast computing rates needed by artificial intelligence (AI) kicked off on March 31st. The PHOENICS project brings together world leaders in neuromorphic photonic computing to achieve for the first time energy efficient petascale processing powers with ultra-high bandwidth. This is the processing power required by AI to reach its full potential.   The 4-year project is a joint research effort of the coordinating University of Münster (WWU, Germany) in