Wireless Data Between Computer Chips

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Wireless Data Between Computer Chips

Monday, July 16th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

I have always been very impressed with anything that went from using cables to being wireless. Personally I try to get my hands on everything that is wireless and most of the times it is for the better (because I can avoid all the cables). Sometimes however I change back to the old version because of the instability of some wireless devises.

Even though the article is almost one year old I just found it recently and I would like to share it with all of you (in case you haven’t read it already). It was posted in the New York Times 17 September 2006 about scientists that had made a chip that was able to transfer data using laser light instead of the wires or connections that are normally using with print cards etc.

The advance will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data between chips, removing the most significant bottleneck in computer design.

A Tiny Laser on a Silicon Chip As a result, chip makers may be able to put the high-speed data communications industry on the same curve of increased processing speed and diminishing costs — the phenomenon known as Moore’s law — that has driven the computer industry for the last four decades.

The development is a result of research at Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Commercializing the new technology may not happen before the end of the decade, but the prospect of being able to place hundreds or thousands of data-carrying light beams on standard industry chips is certain to shake up both the communications and computer industries.

Read the rest of the article here: NY Times

I don’t know about you but I am looking forward to the end of this decade. Reducing heat, energy usage and increasing speed. The sky is the limit (or something like that).

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