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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.
Why have the sharks not been fitted with laser beams?
...that we've got lasers on a mutha-f'ing chip?
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these could be fitted onto a shark's head?
Do you have ESP?
where are my sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
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I want more lasers on sharks!!! Are you listening to me Dick Cheney!!!??? (Of course you are) ;P
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That's just stupid, everyone knows future is lasers-equiped sharks... not laser-equiped chips.
And when the lasers get in the tubes, won't my internets get drilled full of holes ?
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