Computers driven by laser light

by bryan kennedy on Sep. 18th, 2006

Researchers at the University of California in partnership with Intel, have produced a computer chip that can communicate using lasers instead of wires. This chip is built with silicon and conventional manufacturing processes making it relatively cheap but 100s of times faster than current chips. Will this change how we compute?

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