Of course it's for "optical" switching!
Well, for the optical modules in a switch, anyway.
There's a much more obvious application for this than optical CPUs.
It's every optical networking component maker's wet dream to be able to modulate light on silicon, as this would bring down costs of optical modules for 10 Gb/s, 2.5Gb/s, etc.
In principle, you could live without the expensive optical components (pin-diodes, EAMs) and do it all this on one single piece of silicon.
Now we just need to find a clever way of emitting light on silicon as well as finding a cost effective way of packaging ICs with optical fibres coming out of them;-).
PS: Didn't Intel demonstrate optical modulation on Silicon already??
I thought I was kind of funny, though.:)
But seriously, rear projection sets are just plain ugly. Why would anyone like to have a cow-size tv set in the living room, however large and spacious it may be?
I can't believe somebody actually modded this comment as trolling. I'm being serious here!
The slashdot community seems to have turned into a forum in which all remarks with even a hint of slight critisism of Americans (even about your coffee??) gets censored.
Even negative moderation of outright hillbillies gets metamoderated as unfair 90% of the time.
There's no room for other cultural input in this forum. Goodbye, Slashdot.
Ahem...
I never ever had a good cup of coffee in the US. It was mostly like brown water. If gourmet coffee means using enough coffee beans to actually make it taste of something, I'm all for it.
If you have problem with caffeine, then just drink one (gourmet) cup a day for chrissake....;-)
The ban of lead in the electronics industry is only the beginning.
Just you wait until the environment hippies:-) discover all the nicey materials used in assembly, packaging and silicon wafer processes.
I mean, Beryllium and Gallium Arsenide just sound unhealthy, right?
Well, yeah, you're right. They actually are....
Hint: Don't go licking the walls in the manufacturing facilities.
I would look at it from a slightly different perspective. Take a look at assembly plants with a huge throughput of electronic devices. They might use several tons of lead per year, maybe.
In order to properly enforce a ban, you also need to have simlpe rules. Either you ban all lead in electronics or you don't.
Since motherboards run in such high volume worldwide, it's a natural place to start imposing the use of Pb-free materials.
Same here, I have to admit that the Americans I've met in Europe, (in my line of work) were mostly friendly, intelligent and had some sort of cultural tolerance. (No such comments as: Oh, you actually have elections? So this is a democracy, riiiight...)
But once they find out we're not so uptight about the f-word they f*cking, bl**dy well begin to swear like hell for f*ck's sake.
That reminds me of that American family I noticed in some European capital: Small girl knocks over thrash can by accident. Makes a lot of noise. No big deal, no harm done. She looks up at her Dad expecting some kind of reprimande, but the guy says "Don't worry Honey, you're an American citizen, they can't hurt you."
That incident really illustrates how Americans regard foreigners and maybe this also explains the latest 3-4 years of American foreign policy.
Anyone who has tried programming their own OS on a small, automotive application microcontroller (like the Siemens C167) with memory enough to support a ridiculously low number of threads, appreciates the simplicity and predictability of C.
C is far from dead in machine level programming.
Freshly ground coffee in a coffee press is just dynamite!
Pretty much whatever kind of coffee beans you can get is way better than pre-ground coffee, as it loses a lot of its aroma during the grinding/packaging/etc process.
I certainly didn't regret buying that coffee grinder.
It's used for a long range of packaging technologies including SOIC, PLCC, LPCC, QFN, PBGA and many more, all based on injection molding which is nice, easy and cheap.
Components using Sumitomo's red phosphorous injection mold compound are typically overmolded ball grid arrays (e.g. small form factor ethernet mac/phys) or small DILs (your average cheap component packaging technology for small circuits)
As fas as I know, no one would use such mold compounds for capacitor dielectrics...
Get a grip, please.
A harsh reaction like slapping companies around in court if they're not complying 100% with the GPL would just mean less willingness of companies to experiment and implement GPL in their business model.
This would have an adverse effect on the GPL licensing model.
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Of course it's for "optical" switching!
;-).
Well, for the optical modules in a switch, anyway.
There's a much more obvious application for this than optical CPUs.
It's every optical networking component maker's wet dream to be able to modulate light on silicon, as this would bring down costs of optical modules for 10 Gb/s, 2.5Gb/s, etc. In principle, you could live without the expensive optical components (pin-diodes, EAMs) and do it all this on one single piece of silicon.
Now we just need to find a clever way of emitting light on silicon as well as finding a cost effective way of packaging ICs with optical fibres coming out of them
PS: Didn't Intel demonstrate optical modulation on Silicon already??
Sounds like a typical Intelism.
Large companies have a tendency to evolve a vocabulary and grammar of their own.
Coward
I thought I was kind of funny, though. :)
...why, yes, I am from Europe...
But seriously, rear projection sets are just plain ugly. Why would anyone like to have a cow-size tv set in the living room, however large and spacious it may be?
If the cost for a 'true' 40 Gbps optical system is $450k, OC768 won't take off anytime soon.
Back in 2000 everybody threw truckloads of money into 40Gbps optical link research, and see how far we have gotten.
I don't think the world is ready for 40 Gbps, and they won't be for the next 5 years at least.
A standard 10 Gbps optical link is still an incredibly fat pipe, even by today's telecom/enterprise standards.
I can't believe somebody actually modded this comment as trolling. I'm being serious here!
The slashdot community seems to have turned into a forum in which all remarks with even a hint of slight critisism of Americans (even about your coffee??) gets censored.
Even negative moderation of outright hillbillies gets metamoderated as unfair 90% of the time.
There's no room for other cultural input in this forum. Goodbye, Slashdot.
Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a shot.
Ahem... ;-)
I never ever had a good cup of coffee in the US. It was mostly like brown water.
If gourmet coffee means using enough coffee beans to actually make it taste of something, I'm all for it.
If you have problem with caffeine, then just drink one (gourmet) cup a day for chrissake....
The ban of lead in the electronics industry is only the beginning. :-) discover all the nicey materials used in assembly, packaging and silicon wafer processes.
Just you wait until the environment hippies
I mean, Beryllium and Gallium Arsenide just sound unhealthy, right?
Well, yeah, you're right. They actually are....
Hint: Don't go licking the walls in the manufacturing facilities.
I would look at it from a slightly different perspective. Take a look at assembly plants with a huge throughput of electronic devices. They might use several tons of lead per year, maybe.
In order to properly enforce a ban, you also need to have simlpe rules. Either you ban all lead in electronics or you don't.
Since motherboards run in such high volume worldwide, it's a natural place to start imposing the use of Pb-free materials.
Barbarian, anyone? ;-)
Decapitation has been around since the c64, why should this change now?
Same here, I have to admit that the Americans I've met in Europe, (in my line of work) were mostly friendly, intelligent and had some sort of cultural tolerance. (No such comments as: Oh, you actually have elections? So this is a democracy, riiiight...)
:)
But once they find out we're not so uptight about the f-word they f*cking, bl**dy well begin to swear like hell for f*ck's sake.
Just like the rest of us....
That reminds me of that American family I noticed in some European capital: Small girl knocks over thrash can by accident. Makes a lot of noise. No big deal, no harm done. She looks up at her Dad expecting some kind of reprimande, but the guy says "Don't worry Honey, you're an American citizen, they can't hurt you."
That incident really illustrates how Americans regard foreigners and maybe this also explains the latest 3-4 years of American foreign policy.
Sigh. Here goes my karma --wheeeee
What he did to you seems to be justified.
Anyone who has tried programming their own OS on a small, automotive application microcontroller (like the Siemens C167) with memory enough to support a ridiculously low number of threads, appreciates the simplicity and predictability of C.
C is far from dead in machine level programming.
Freshly ground coffee in a coffee press is just dynamite!
Pretty much whatever kind of coffee beans you can get is way better than pre-ground coffee, as it loses a lot of its aroma during the grinding/packaging/etc process.
I certainly didn't regret buying that coffee grinder.
Yup, something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark.
He read Asimov and Clarke being 7 years old. Did I understand this correctly (x+9=16, x=7yrs)? Wow....
It's not as if AMD would ever copy anything...
(Hey, wait a second, I used to own an AMD486....)
I think this is just a part of Intel's mindset.
In a court case, they need to be able to prove they exercised due dilligence in protecting their product's trade secrets, patents, etc...
...and control it using different chords?
F#m for viewing attachments and C#7maj9 for 'Send'....
Face it. AMD and Intel need eachother. For me it's a sign of health that Intel's roadmaps are affected by AMD's moves and vice versa.
It's easy to imagine how Intel or AMD products would be more inferior due to lack of competition.
It's used for a long range of packaging technologies including SOIC, PLCC, LPCC, QFN, PBGA and many more, all based on injection molding which is nice, easy and cheap.
Components using Sumitomo's red phosphorous injection mold compound are typically overmolded ball grid arrays (e.g. small form factor ethernet mac/phys) or small DILs (your average cheap component packaging technology for small circuits) As fas as I know, no one would use such mold compounds for capacitor dielectrics...
Get a grip, please. A harsh reaction like slapping companies around in court if they're not complying 100% with the GPL would just mean less willingness of companies to experiment and implement GPL in their business model. This would have an adverse effect on the GPL licensing model.