According to Arthur Cole blogging on ITBusinessEdge, the new generation of fiber optic technology will revolutionize computing with the latest chipsets. Photonics technology that connects processor cores to on-chip systems through optical interconnects is destined to lower power consumption and increase the speed of computers. From the article:

Intel is pushing this technology the farthest at the moment, demonstrating a design that puts up to 200 Gbps on a single beam, twice as fast as current optical networking technology. The company is looking to combine up to 25 40-Gbps modulators onto a single chip to get the data rate up to a terabit or more.

Read the entire article here: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/atc/?p=428

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