Rethinking Computer Design For an Optical World

holy_calamity writes "Technology Review looks at how some traditions of computer architecture are up for grabs with the arrival of optical interconnects like Intel's 50Gbps link unveiled last week. The extra speed makes it possible to consider moving a server's RAM a few feet from its CPUs to aid cooling and moving memory and computational power to peripherals like laptop docks and monitors."

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Re:Speed of whatever

[FiloEleven]

A single optical stream is much easier to use, sort of like the communications equivalent of Amdahl's Law.

She only made one law? I thought she was a queen. Kind of cool though that real-life tech is starting to take advantage of laws that before belonged only to the realm of science fiction. ;)