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Light Emitting Silicon Steps It Up

Posted by Hemos on from the move-that-data-faster dept.

h4mm3r writes "STMicroelectronics plans to announce a breakthrough on Monday in light-emitting silicon that could lead to a new generation of more powerful computing processors and more efficient automobile components as well as potentially higher-speed optical data-transmission systems. (gotta register, free yadda yadda)"

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  1. The coolest part of this story... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... is the new acronym for Light Emitting Silicon.

    1. Re:The coolest part of this story... by Daath · · Score: 5, Funny

      LIght Emitting Silicon? - LIES
      ;)

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      Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
  2. Light emitting silicion is easy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    120V 20A will make almost any chip glow!

  3. Light Emitting Silicon?! by Zack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great! Now strippers can do their own light shows! (Okay, it's silicon vs silicone, but shhhhh, it's funnier that way)

  4. I can see it already... by zozzi · · Score: 5, Funny
    "No Sir I wasn't staring at her breasts, I was just attracted by the light coming out of her shirt"

    "Case dismissed!"

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    1. Re:I can see it already... by machine+of+god · · Score: 2, Funny

      what are you, a moth?

  5. Glow? by e8johan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean that part of the heat from the CPU will be light in the future? No more "monitor glow", more like "computer glow"... perhaps if different parts had different colours, e.g. floating point = green, integer = blue, cachemiss = red. Then you would know what part of your code to optimize without running a profiler: "It's all green and f**king slow, make your inner loops fixed point, dumbass!" :)

  6. new math by the_pooh_experience · · Score: 4, Funny
    "...researchers have succeeded in increasing the efficiency of light- emitting silicon 100-fold..."

    well now, let us see.. 100 times ZERO. Maybe that "new math" we all learned can help us with this.

    Please forgive this post, I am a bitter III/V (read GaAs et al) guy

  7. Re:Saab by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, fiber optic also makes it easier to shield against emp attacks. Mmmmm. Hardened car. (I'm posting this anonymously so I can come back and mod myself down for OT)

  8. Re:Very challenging to do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    light-emitting semiconductors such as GaAs

    When I have GaAs, my emissions would not be considered "light".

  9. What, shining fake tits?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, should read the story first...