Stories about: silicon photonics

Intel Already Working on Thunderbolt Successor, Promises Transfer Speeds of 50Gb/s

Intel has recently revealed that the company is developing a successor for the Thunderbolt, DisplayPort and USB 3.0 technologies that will rely on silicon photonics and will use a new transfer protocol. The new interconnect technology should be ready sometime in 2015. Intel said that its upcoming external interfac...

29 April 2011
02:44 GMT

IBM Researcher Says Optical Interconnects Won't Be Available for At Least 10 Years

Considered as one of the major breakthroughs in chip manufacturing, silicon photonics is far away from becoming a reality, an IBM researcher just affirming that at least 10 years have to pass until this technology will become a reality.Speaking during the SPIE Photonics West 2011 conference, Bert-Jan Offrein, manager...

3 February 2011
11:02 GMT

Intel Unveils Technology Advancements in Silicon Photonics Intel announced that its researchers managed to achieve new world record performance in optical communications in the field of Silicon Photonics through the use of a silicon-based Avalanche Photodetector (APD). According to the company, the APD is also able to help reduce costs compared to commercially available opti...	8 December 2008 03:49 GMT

Sun Gets Pentagon's Money for Laser-Based Chip Interconnects Chip manufacturer Sun Microsystems has just received a $44 million contract from the Pentagon to research on viable light replacements for the standard copper interconnects between chips. According to the chip manufacturer, the Sun researchers have found a method to reconnect the chips in such a manner that would all...	24 March 2008 12:18 GMT

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Stories about: silicon photonics

Intel Already Working on Thunderbolt Successor, Promises Transfer Speeds of 50Gb/s

IBM Researcher Says Optical Interconnects Won't Be Available for At Least 10 Years

Intel Unveils Technology Advancements in Silicon Photonics

Sun Gets Pentagon's Money for Laser-Based Chip Interconnects