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"n a development that could revolutionize how PCs and other tech gadgets communicate, Intel announced Tuesday that it had made the first chip that sends and receives information using beams of light. The Santa Clara chipmaker said the fingernail-size research prototype already can move 100 hours of digital music or 45 million tweets in a second from one device to another. And the company expects to make one eventually that can transmit a laptop's hard drive in one second and the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in less than two minutes. But the chip it unveiled Tuesday, which sends data via four lasers, can hit 50 gigabits per second. And that's just the beginning, according to Rattner. By adding a few more lasers, the company expects to be able to boost that to perhaps 1,000 gigabits, he said." www.mercurynews.com/ci_15616178
Last Edit: Aug 4, 2010 19:27:36 GMT by Andrew McGivery
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This really does not sound all that revolutionary to me. Fiber optics uses light to send data as well. This might be the first time it has ever been used in a chip, but the method is far from new.
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Yeah, idea is not that new, but it will still be baller to use.
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"Intel already has a fiber-optic cable product, soon to be offered commercially, for linking home electronic gadgets. The company claims it can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second, about 20 times faster than possible with the USB cable connections common on PCs today."
10 gb per second in the cable compared to 50 per second in the chip? I think thats a pretty big deal.
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"Intel already has a fiber-optic cable product, soon to be offered commercially, for linking home electronic gadgets. The company claims it can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second, about 20 times faster than possible with the USB cable connections common on PCs today." 10 gb per second in the cable compared to 50 per second in the chip? I think thats a pretty big deal. Yeah, Apple has already signed up for the connector. It's supposed to compete with USB 3.0 when it actually rolls out.
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When does USB 3.0 even roll out?  Fredy, for ToS reasons, can you post the link?
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