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Intel Researchers Demonstrate 40Gbps Optical Chips
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.'"
* Sam's Laser FAQ
Catalyzing development. (hopefully)
- Does anybody have links or papers re: manufacturing of fiber optics or very small optical beams? Would be great to have.
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!
There are two types of people in the world: those who divide people into two types and those who don't.
I hope that these new PIC Chips fare a bit better than the last ones. They must be like the tech version of the Black Knight who Always Triumphs! Slashdot effortlessly cut the limbs off of the old PIC Chips, but the PICs are not done! Those smoldering, dead servers were just flesh wounds!
bah why did the submitter have to explain the acronym (dont give me that "for clarity crap"), think about all the jokes which could of come from the confusion!
"PICs use optical integrated circuits now? woah, so much for just running my toaster!!"
ok thats a bad example but you get the picture.
more multiple meanings for acronyms in the tech industry is just what we need!
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!
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.
Would spinning one those color wheels they use at the discos at 10,000rpm work?
What?
COOL
Isolinear chips!
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
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..
What about the electro-optical conversions? Won't they slow things down a bit in a real-world situation?
Yeah, but how many? It's like askin' the square root of a million... no none will ever know.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
I mean how the hell am I gonna overclock light?
The PIC acronym is already taken but they definitely don't do 40gHz!
www.boznz.com Simple solutions to complex problems.
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)
I'm running Debian, you insensitive clod!
Crap. What did the new CSS do with the "Post anonymously" option??
People in the communications business know not to bet against electronics. Optics are very useful for long distance communications, but for several reasons the technology in the linked article will not make a new CPU nor will it be a chip-to-chip interconnect.
This technology will be useful for integrating lasers into signal-processing chips.
Also, would the editors kindly link to the original Intel post? The Gearlog story adds absolutely nothing.
PICs or it didn't happen.
I just read Slashdot for the articles.
The current crop of optical chips are a mix of electron & photon devices. I wonder if totally optical chips could be possible. Is that viable? or desirable?
PICs ! PICs !!!! Won't some one thing of the children !
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