Gadget Metro

The headline makes any sense to you? Probably not yet. Alright, how about you say the headline out loud and repeat it five times faster? Fun, isn’t it? Now that you have gotten confused, it is time we make sense out of silicon nanophotonics.

This is a technology IBM is planning to use in the next few years. Basically, it pulses of light replace electricity to make data transfer between processor cores on a chip up to 100 times faster. To elucidate further, this technology replaces some of the wires on a chip with pulses of light on tiny optical fibers for quicker and more power-efficient data transfers between cores on a chip. This information is according to research scientists of the company.

It is not just IBM which is working with silicon nanophotonics though. There are start-up companies in the United States currently working on it.

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IBM, silicon nanophotonics

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