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Intel Researchers Demonstrate 40Gbps Optical Chips

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the light-ning-fast dept.

scott3778 writes "Intel Researchers announced they have successfully demonstrated a 40Gbps optical chip, an accomplishment the company says will yield cheaper photonic integrated circuits. 'chip makers have shown a keen interest in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) over the past few years because of their ability to provide a cost-effective solution for optical communication and future optical interconnects in computing industry. There are obstacles, though: One of the key components needed for silicon PICs is the very high-speed silicon optical modulator, which is used to encode data on optical beam.'"

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  1. They need to give one of these for this lady... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that's something Sigbritt Löthberg (http://slashdot.org/articles/07/07/12/1236231.sht ml) needs to install on her computer to take advantage of her 40GBps internet link!

    1. Re:They need to give one of these for this lady... by Token_Internet_Girl · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sigbritt Löthberg was the envy of all the retirement home, as she consistently utilized the world's fastest internet connection to outbid everyone on Ebay.

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  2. Re:PICs? by dextromulous · · Score: 2, Funny

    PICs? Hasn't this acronym been used before?
    Sure, it has been used a few times. there are only so many TLAs, you know. Much less than there are IPv4 addresses, and we seem to be running out of those as well.
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  3. Cool, but ho hum in the year 2075 by caywen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Definitely sounds like a good bet for getting us past Moore's Law after 2065. I think electron spin technology will carry us from 2050-2060, and quantum spooky effect chips will take us to 2075, but man, after that we're just screwed without this technology. Until 2065, though, we're just gonna have to live with million core chips suspended in a bathtub of liquid nitrogen. As long as it's cost effective!

  4. Re:PICs? by iamdrscience · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, but there are only so many initialisms available, they overlap regularly. My favorite one is POS, either "Point of Sale" or "Piece of Shit". I loved calling referring to the cash registers at my last job as POS systems because they were both.

  5. high-speed silicon optical modulator by iminplaya · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would spinning one those color wheels they use at the discos at 10,000rpm work?

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  6. Re:PICs by jedimark · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least one (sad) person though that was funny and relevant..

    I wish these companies would stop pinching trademarks when they create stupid acronyms.. If it's leads to 40ghz chips and technology, they should put a little more thought into a funkier ground-breaking name for their concept..

  7. This sucks for modding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean how the hell am I gonna overclock light?

    1. Re:This sucks for modding by seanadams.com · · Score: 2, Funny

      I mean how the hell am I gonna overclock light?

      Immerse it in lead and then run it on Xrays. Duh.

    2. Re:This sucks for modding by tygerstripes · · Score: 2, Funny

      And now the Modders and Overclockers are set to polarise into two distinct communities - those who try to improve performance by reducing light-leakage, and those who prettify the setup by mounting a spinning disco-ball in their many-windowed case and grinding a refractive biohazard symbol into the top of their CPU...

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  8. Re:PICs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ISTR that if we assume that most TLAs consist of the 26 ASCII letters (case-insensitive), and therefore there are 26^3=17576 TLAs. However, according to
    http://www.internetworldstats.com/blog.htm, there are currently 1,173,109,925 internet users. Clearly, there are not enough TLAs to go around, and so I propose TLAv2. TLAv2 will increase the number of available TLAs to 8031810176; this is almost seven times the number of people currently using the internet!

    These fancy new seven-letter three letter acronyms (FNSLTLAs) also appeal because those using them will be able to spell out such phrases as DEDBEEF and PATRIOT (whoops, I think that one may already be taken). This, in addition to the easy availability of addresses (IANA will be selling a 26-address block, for example BOOBIE{A through Z}, for less than the price of a single TLAv1 address)

  9. Re:I for one... by Nullav · · Score: 2, Funny

    PICs or it didn't happen.

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