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Created : 24 March 2008
 

Silicon Photonics



https://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/24/sun-silicon-photonics-macro
A researcher at Sun Laboratories leading the project, Ron Ho, reckons “We expect a 50 per cent chance of failure, but if we win we can have as much as a thousand times increase in performance”. Researchers also claim that if their idea works, they could finally break Moore’s law which states that the number of transistors on a computer chip has to double roughly every two years.

Sun reckons that if the research bears fruit, the project could lead to the manufacturing of smaller computers that were up to a thousand times faster than the ones available today.

 

Comments
Monday, 24 March 2008, 11:25
JL235
 		WOOT: GO SUN!
Tuesday, 09 December 2008, 18:39
HoboBen
 		Apparently Intel are claiming a breaktrhough - "anticipates silicon photonics devices will be in computers as soon as 2010".