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Engineers Demo 1st Processor that uses Light for Ultrafast Communications

Engineers demo first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications

This packaged electronic-photonic processor microchip under illumination reveals the chip’s primary features. The light rays emanating from the chip are drawn to show that the processor talks to the outside world using light. Credit: Glenn J. Asakawa, University of Colorado Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-12-demo-processor-ultrafast.html#jCp

Engineers have successfully married electrons and photons within a single-chip microprocessor, a landmark development that opens the door to ultrafast, low-power data crunching. The researchers packed 2 processor cores with >70 million transistors and 850 photonic components onto a 3-by-6-millimeter chip...

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