The 40 billion bits per second chip heralds dawn of tera-scale computing

Posted by markdoughty on Jul 27, 2007 7:02 AM EDT
DaniWeb Inside Edge; By Davey Winder
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In what could prove to be of major importance to the future of motherboard and component data transfer rates, the Photonics Technology Lab at Intel has announced a silicon laser modulator that can encode data at 40Gb/sec.

The important thing is that the device could, and should, eventually find its way into the computers of the future, integrating multiple devices on one chip that is capable of moving terabits of aggregate data every second.

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