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Intel Devises Chip Speed Breakthrough
Chad Wood writes "According to the New York Times (free reg. req.), Intel has demonstrated a research breakthrough, making silicon chips that can switch light like electricity. The article explains:''This opens up whole new areas for Intel,' said Mario Paniccia, a an Intel physicist, who started the previously secret Intel research program to explore the possibility of using standard semiconductor parts to build optical networks. 'We're trying to siliconize photonics.' The invention demonstrates for the first time, Intel researchers said, that ultrahigh-speed fiberoptic equipment can be produced at personal computer industry prices. As the costs of communicating between computers and chips falls, the barrier to building fundamentally new kinds of computers not limited by physical distance should become a reality, experts say.'"
"We've taken two AMD chips and put them both dual configuration with a giant 'Intel' sticker on top. Then, we sell it for twice what we paid, and get the lusers... err, I mean... users to buy it because it says 'Intel Inside.'"
that it will have to be x86 compatible, or it will never fly.
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This kind of technology seems like a very healthy step toward making computers resistant to electromagnetic waves and/or pulses (aided also by the rise of optical storage devices), which is great for us humans now. But now what are we going to use against the "squiddies" when they come for our hovercrafts?
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"We're trying to siliconize photonics"
....yada yada yada...
...Look, how fast will the thing go, and will I end up starting a fire in my PC from overheat?
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Photonics == lasers
So this technology should also revolutionize the mod scene and therefore dramatically effect Slashdot's front page.
I wonder how many kids will accidentally burn their eyes out looking into the light?
...or is this (Moore's Law)^2 ?
Better yet...will this be meazured in LHz (Ludicrous-hertz)?
I am far more interested in overquacking then I am in overclacking. ;)
overclocking is right out.
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...building fundamentally new kinds of computers not limited by physical distance should become a reality...
So they've broken the lightspeed barrier? Amazing!
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
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Know what I mean?
Given the current press reports from the White House and David Kay, how do we know we can trust this intel?
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Doesn't the "bi" in "bit" mean two? So we would have to call three states a "trit"; and four states a "quit" to keep them straight.
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So now the only barrier is the speed of light? Or do I need a nice warp core sitting in my living room to overclock?
but would 12 states be a twit? ;)
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You know, maybe you are right. And I think we should also stop counting in base-10. I mean, we've been doing that for, like, forever. And it would be so cool to count in base-13. And maybe we should live in tepees. Because they're cool.
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I think the universe might disagree.
That universe, thinks he's so smart...
Um, that might not be wise. If you try to overclock past the speed of light, I think that will cause a rift in the Time/Space Continuum. :P
"What did Moore have to say about this?"
He said that it was Bush's fault that we don't have this technology already. He was then booed by the audience at the awards show.
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So, you would have tits (Tertiary digITs).
Computing at the speed of light. Oh, wait, bottlenecks. Damn you serial ATA Hard Drive!!!
This is much better than early forays into this technology by AMD where the heatsink would fall off of the processor & the resultant heat would generate the light.
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I, for one, welcome our new photon overlords.
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I think they are normally called "trits".
On the otherhand, Google only got 5090 hits for "trits" and 16,600,000 for "tits", so perhaps that is the more common term. I see, however, that the top hit for "tits" is about bird-watching, so this alternative meaning may have contaminated the results.
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Respectfully... I distrust the discussion of "third base" from a computer geek :)
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I'm not upgrading before we have CLits (CL in Roman numerals should be something like 150). 150 states for each bit is what you need for serious realtime porn-rendering, man!
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Have you ever noticed [especially the french] how much vacation these guys have? I work in the US with a UK, French, and German team. These fucking guys are always on vacation. They're fucking genuises, but don't get to work often enough to get shit done....
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Ahh, but if we went through the Earth, max latency is ~85ms!
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11 -- Intel scientists say that they have made silicon chips that can switch light like electricity, blurring the line between computing and communications and presenting a vision of the digital future that will allow computers themselves to span cities or even the entire globe.
Great! I was getting so tired of my computer being only 5lbs and man-portable! I can't wait for these new planet-sized computers. Mine's going to be called the Death Star.
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So instead of being "yes"/"no", bits should offer more possibilities, like "maybe", "can i call a friend?" and "CowboyNeal"?
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When is it that one thinks 'okay, I have enough porn now' ?
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I was under the impression that physical distance was always a limitation...?
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Depends on which physics you want to use.
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