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Chip to chip comm using lasers

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:38 pm
by Sabre
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 — Researchers plan to announce on Monday that they have created a silicon-based chip that can produce laser beams. The advance will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data between chips, removing the most significant bottleneck in computer design.

Wow, this is pretty freaking cool. Now that they have done this, it paves the way for a lot of things...

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:22 pm
by complacent
Serious speed breakthroughs... new interesting designs... looks promising. :)


here somes the terminator

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:50 pm
by chicken n waffles
so now i can break your internets with mirrors

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:36 pm
by Cereb Daithi
this goes right in hand with the fiberoptic motherboards that they are comming up on the horizon... ive also heard tales of procs running at 300GHz at room temp.. this is cool...