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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."

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  1. Gotta Love the spin by nsingapu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Processing at the speed of light, you can have safer airports"
    Its really quite sick and disturbing that the aftermath of 9/11 has degraded to a marketing ploy.

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