Lasers for faster chips

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Aron Schatz

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Lasers for faster chips

Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:26:13 AM #24220 Perm Link

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10109

Light instead of wire. We'll be moving to that sooner or later...

Sooner.

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Thefremen

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Re: Lasers for faster chips

Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:54:12 AM #24222 Perm Link

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All I want is chips that use fricken laser beams, is that too much to ask?

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Re[2]: Lasers for faster chips

Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:35:06 PM #24237 Perm Link

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mmh, sounds promising, although I am wondering whether or not it will cause interference from other sources. I guess computer has reached the bottleneck with the chip (that's why its' going to dual/quad/multi-core). Maybe this can further enhance the clockspeed.

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Thefremen

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Re[3]: Lasers for faster chips

Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:02:53 AM #24265 Perm Link

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Little known fact: todays chips already make miscalculations becuase of interference from RF but the effect on end users is small compared to buggy OSes, Viruses, etc.

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Aron Schatz

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Re[3]: Lasers for faster chips

Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:18:46 AM #24270 Perm Link

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If we went to laser communication instead of wire, the effect of RF radiation would be gone. You could more densely pack lasers together than you could wires.

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nighthawk15

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Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:47:33 AM #24285 Perm Link

I'm amazed somebody didn't think of this sooner. Or maybe they did but there wasn't a use for it yet. Pretty sick though all the same.

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Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:52:27 AM #24292 Perm Link

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In reality, these chips or rather the ability to mount lasers using silicon are really on the cusp of technology.

Once we get the process down it will be much better for computers.