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Paint-on Laser Brings Optical Computing Closer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the paint-by-number dept.

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."

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  1. dot - digg latency by coaxeus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Current latency from digg to slashdot is 172,800,000 milliseconds. (this was on digg 2 days ago)

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  2. 53rd post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i win!!

  3. Paint by javakah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's not a moon, it's the galaxies largest paint ball!

  4. Should be shot by iliketrash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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."

    People who make run-on sentences should be shot, don't you agree.

  5. Laser Graffiti! by billstewart · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hey, let's go play laser-tag!

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