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07-31-10, 01:59 PM #21Re: High Speed Laser Chip, Intel
There will be big applications for this in computational physics/high energy physics where the sheer volume of data being shifted is enormous. Too bad I'll be gone from my current school that has a fiber connection by the time the chips will come out. It would severely cut down the time it takes for research to occur/be analyzed.
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07-31-10, 03:17 PM #22
Re: High Speed Laser Chip, Intel
I'm confused. After reading the article, I'm under the impression that these transfer speeds are just inside the computer and not for long distances. Like PCI bus transfer speeds compared to internet download speeds. Am I missing something?
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The silicon-based photonics chip could be used within a computer or to communicate from server to server in a data center. “If we are talking about CPU-to-memory connection, we would take our photonics chip and put it close to the CPU to bypass the copper interconnects,” says Paniccia. “For now we are not talking about integrating with the CPU.”
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08-01-10, 11:28 AM #23Re: High Speed Laser Chip, Intel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEFmPDG82QA&NR=1
Ultimate goal with the silicon photonics is to connect your PC with other devices, in the same room, building, or across the country at the speed of light.
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08-01-10, 05:47 PM #27Re: High Speed Laser Chip, Intel
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08-02-10, 04:59 AM #29Re: High Speed Laser Chip, Intel
You are wrong. Read or watch some more videos about Intel's Silicon Photonics research team (as well as IBM) and you will see that the goal for this is to handle both local and wide area networks connecting from coast to cost, or even reaching distances overseas and cross continents, with all data traveling at the speed of light.
This is probably going to be the way of the future, unless someone else comes up with a data transfer faster than the speed of light.
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