Engineers at IBM have devised a way to send data between CPU’s using pulses of light instead of electricity, resulting in transfer speeds that are 100-times faster.
Called “silicon nanophotonics”, it could downsize supercomputers to laptop size and could help reduce overheating and breakdown of data on short trips.
According to Will Green, a researcher at IBM, the use of silicon nanophotonics will allow “hundreds or thousands of cores on a single chip,” resulting in substantial performance boosts.
The project is still 10-12 years off, but it does sound very promising.
[Via Engadget]
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