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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. Faster Chip = Faster pr0n by joeszilagyi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hurrah for 8 trillion badly Photoshopped celebrity per second!

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  2. THE main impact by Doesn't_Comment_Code · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The most important and far reaching impact of this by far will be its affect on the internet and other fiberoptic networks.

    Currently the slowest and most expensive part of a fiberoptic network is an OEO (optical-electric-optical) converter, used in routers and switches. These should replace those converters and have a SIGNIFICANT speed enhancement. Faster connections for all!

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  3. Re:Ha! by fuzzybunny · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Hey, I copyrighted that phrase. And since Congress just extended copyrights to 300 years plus life of the author and his great-great-great-grandchildren and their unborn spawn...

    I patented the use of end-of-visible spectrum photonics to display information, so you can't use that black-and-white crap on me either.

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