JMS Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 This invention is claimed to solve the heat problem with computer chips. The technology uses light rather than electricity and almost eliminates heat. IT also increases CPU spead by 100x's effectively putting today's super computer's power in a laptop. Additionally this technology will allow for hundreds or even thousands of cores to coexist on a single chip... All very exciting. IBM Unleashes Photonic Supercomputer... On a Chip Modern supercomputers are still at least 100 times faster than the crappy laptop you bought a week ago, and electrons are to blame. Today, IBM introduced a way to speed up the action on regular silicon chips by replacing the wiring with pulses of light, a technology called—what else?—silicon photonics. This method works for longer stretches requiring communication between cores, but it doesn't have a major impact in very tight spaces, so copper can still be used. This all may sound familiar, as it's essentially a teeny tiny version of today's fiberoptic networks. Now that you're kicking yourself about that laptop purchase, here's the good news: photonics won't be marketable on chips for another decade. [InfoWorld] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 ...i have to go change my pants... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enter Apotheosis Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Won't be marketable on ships for another decade... thats depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Won't be marketable on ships for another decade... thats depressing. but i wanna go sailing with them now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedlightG20 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Computers that consumers buy today are already so obsolete. There is so much better technology out there that we could be using, but is not available to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baculus Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 That is very exciting, and I bet we see this technology marketable before a decade's time. If the technology is applicable, then it will be developed for manufacturing and marketing. If we live past 2012, I can't wait to see our computers in the next decade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baculus Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 This article could conceivably be related to silicon photonics: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/3d-processors/inventor-of-flash-memory-has-big-plans-for-superfast-3d-processors-331117.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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