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Paint-on Laser Brings Optical Computing Closer
holy_calamity writes "New Scientist has a story about a laser made by painting a solution of semiconductor crystals onto glass. It could be used to break the interconnect barrier by having optical interconnects, the interconnect barrier threatens Moore's law unless a faster way of connecting chips is found."
Well, I don't have any direct sources, but: The interconnect barrier means that while chip size keeps decreasing, the interconnects between sections of chips, and even between individual chips themselves aren't able to be made much smaller, so things like resistance, capacitance, and inductance get in the way with the bigger interconnects. Basically, the interconnects can't keep up with the growth of the chips themselves.
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yep it's simple really.
take your standard Network. Incoming ISP network, Local Router, cables, computers.
Now take a Fiber optic version of that. Fiber from ISP, to Interconnect, to router, cables and computers. Sometimes they can even make the lines to the machines fiber as well but not always.
Basically in order to have fiber optics everytime you hit a junction you have to convert the signal to electrical, sort it, and then convert it back to light. That process slows down the overall data transfer rate considerably.
What they are trying to do is make it so that you can plug the fiber right into your computer and have the signal remain as light the entire distance it travels. This will increase bandwidth and speed of the networks signifcantly just be replacing routers.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.