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Fiber On Your Motherboard...Soon!

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 17, 2001 @04:57AM from the let-there-be-fiber dept.

km790816 writes: "In this post I joked about wanting an optical bus on my PC. In the last week I've seen two articles from The Register and EETimes discussing the real possibility. Both mention high bandwidth and lower heat and power usage. Sounds good to me."

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FP! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-17 04:59 · Score: -1, Troll

Mad propz to all the trolling bretheren!
Trollerama!
Re:Is it... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-17 05:00 · Score: -1, Troll

Fiber. Fibre is what stops you getting runny poo.
SLURPPP!!!! Sorry, sucked too hard there.
It's a waste. by Sj0 · 2001-10-17 05:12 · Score: 2, Troll

I can see nothing but latency if a bus was set up to be optical. Why spend money on transcievers when wires on the bus interface directly with the processors? The wasted money could be easily spent on something which could actually increase speed, like increasing motherboard size to allow for a thicker, more spaced apart set of bus wires to decrease resistance and the effects of capacitance.

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