New Optical DSPs With Tera-ops Performance

GFD writes: "The EETimes has a story about a new class of hybrid digital/optical signal processors that are programmable and offer tera-ops performance potential for relatively low cost and power requirements. No fundamental breakthroughs but rather a very slick use of existing optical networking components to create a programmable optical processor that looks to the rest of the world like a single chip digital signal processor. Elegant and impressive if they can deliver."

Comments

better motherboards

[motherhead]

Very slick! I wonder how this bodes for future MB chipset designs.

When you see what companies like nVidia are doing with chipsets like the nForce (i.e.: better then mediocre on-board graphics, very capable on-board audio, Ethernet etc, etc...) we may start seeing motherboards with surplus PCI slots.