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Stories about: optical chip

IBM Holey Optochip Transfers a Trillion Bits (1Tb) Using Light Processors that use light to transfer data, instead of electrical signals, are something that the IT industry has been working on for a long time, but IBM seems to be doing the best in this area. The company has shown that it succeeded in its effort to make an optical chipset that can move information eight times f... 12 March 2012 03:52 GMT Fabs Can Make Optical Chips, Say MIT Researchers Although not yet perfected, MIT researchers used polysilicon-made waveguides and the same manufacturing facilities as semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments (TI) in order to create a chip that incorporated a large number of functional optical components. The MIT researchers' view is that, if they somehow m... 26 November 2009 09:01 GMT