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Intel Milestone Confirms Light Beams Can Replace Electronic Signals
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27th July 2010, 23:07
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 |  Intel Milestone Confirms Light Beams Can Replace Electronic Signals Intel Corporation today announced an important advance in the quest to use light beams to replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers. The company has developed a research prototype representing the world's first silicon-based optical data connection with integrated lasers. The link can move data over longer distances and many times faster than today's copper technology; up to 50 gigabits of data per second. This is the equivalent of an entire HD movie being transmitted each second. Today computer components are connected to each other using copper cables or traces on circuit boards. Due to the signal degradation that comes with using metals such as copper to transmit data, these cables have a limited maximum length. This limits the design of computers, forcing processors, memory and other components to be placed just inches from each other. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi...727comp_sm.htm
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