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New Optical Chip Claims 8 Trillion Operations/sec.

Posted by timothy on from the each-century-is-a-matter-of-weeks dept.

Richard Finney writes "Lenslet is announcing the 'World's First Commercial Optical Processor.'. Reuters has the story here. The Inquirer has a cool graphic here on it. The processor is specified to run at a speed of 8 Tera (8,000 Giga) operations per second, one thousand times faster than any known DSP. When Lenslet releases its Enlight processor in a matter of weeks, a unit using the technology will be 1.7 centimetres high and measure 15 by 15 centimetres."

6 of 315 comments (clear)

  1. what a ripoff! by proj_2501 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It can't handle 8192 Giga Operations per second?

  2. Re:Yeah, but does it improve my pr0n? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nope, you needn't worry. You'll still finish well before the computer does.

  3. Re:Cool Acronym needed by bcolflesh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Prismatic
    Optical
    Refractive
    Nacell

  4. Re:yeah..nice by machine+of+god · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't care if it fills my room, and I have to sleep on top of it in the 30cm space between it and the ceiling. I'd still take it.

  5. Ha! by ArmenTanzarian · · Score: 5, Funny
    I patented this idea already, give me money!
    My patent states:
    Using light to do stuff and/or calculate stuff.
    It's all there in black and white.
  6. Re:FYI by Detritus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really, I thought it was the cross-polarized emission of tachyons in a Potrezebie field.

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