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Production of Photon Processors Expected in 2006
ThinSkin writes "Photon processors that transmit data via light, not electrons, are slated to enter production in mid-2006, ExtremeTech reports. Headed by a UCLA professor and a Nobel Prize winner, startup Luxtera claims that its optical modulator clocks in at 10-GHz, tens times that of Intel's optical modulator researchers talked about last year. Since the optical module exists as its own entity, it will require a standard CMOS processes to integrate the optical waveguides. Luxtera has worked closely with Freescale Semiconductor to develop this technology."
free cursors
Fog? Vapor? Steam?
Does it run Linux?
Also, while I'm here...
Imagine a Beowulf.....
In Soviet Russia photons....
3 PROFT!!
Only old people use photons....
"I'll waste 'em with my crossbow!" ~Bob Herzog, Power Gamer
Photons moving at a certain wavelength, ie. 650nm for red, is visible electromagnetic radiation, aka light that can be seen with our eyes.
And photons most certainly have a mass, albiet very small one, much smaller than electrons. If they didn't what allows lasers to cut metal? Pure energy? No.
troll. physics troll?
how?