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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. Re:The Definitive Question Is: +1, Patriotic by diverman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Only for the next revision. The following Windows release will find a way to bloat itself to the point that even that processor starts to feel slow... just to browse the web. ;)

    -Alex