The scientific journal Nature is reporting that Intel has shattered speed barriers and broken a world record for data transmission. The technology works like Morse code between two ships at sea, but much faster. Instead of spotlights sending out code letters, Intel researchers have developed a transistor-like device that breaks up light beams into super fast flashes that correspond to the computer language of digital zeros and ones.
Intel's chief technology officer, Pat Gelsinger says “What we want to do is collapse the gap between electrons and photons, bringing those together on to a single piece of silicon, where we can literally take a piece of fiber and stick it right into one of our processors.”
As light beams travel through it, Intel's silicon chip device marks the light with more than a billion bits of data per second. That's 50 times faster than any other silicon photonic device. Researchers believe this breakthrough could help make fiber optics affordable for commercial use inside computers and consumer devices within the next ten years. Other Articles Related to light
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