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Intel Announces Lasers On a Chip
wonkavader writes, "The New York Times reports that 'Researchers plan to announce on Monday that they have created a silicon-based chip that can produce laser beams. The advance will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data between chips, removing the most significant bottleneck in computer design.' The work is from Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara. This suggests breakthroughs in both computing performance and networking." From the article: "The breakthrough was achieved by bonding a layer of light-emitting indium phosphide onto the surface of a standard silicon chip etched with special channels that act as light-wave guides. The resulting sandwich has the potential to create on a computer chip hundreds and possibly thousands of tiny, bright lasers that can be switched on and off billions of times a second." Further details in the Intel press release.
A momentus occasion in the annals of humanity. Fa-ricking Layz0rz on a mofoing chip.
the mods may say you posted flamebait, but to me it's a flame that warms my heart. rock on, brother! --chebucto
I cnat wiat for the day wehn hunams will hvae chips inisde tehm taht will make tehm SMARTR, FASTR AND MORE EFFICENT. and i am not talking about potato chips.
PS... I need chips!