KIT's (silicon/organic/light) cpu 4x times faster than Intels' Record :)

[Skybuck Flying]

Hello,

German story about a processor/cpu(?) which uses silicon and carves lanes
inside the silicon and fills it with some kind of organic substance... then
it's heated to vaporizing point... the lanes transmit at the speed of light
?!

Pretty cool.

Link to german article:

http://www.kit.edu/fzk/idcplg?IdcService=KIT&node=4211&document=ID_068326

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Helmut Sennewald]

Hello,

German story about a processor/cpu(?) which uses silicon and carves lanes
inside the silicon and fills it with some kind of organic substance...
then it's heated to vaporizing point... the lanes transmit at the speed of
light ?!

Pretty cool.

Link to german article:

http://www.kit.edu/fzk/idcplg?IdcService=KIT&node=4211&document=ID_068326

Bye,
Skybuck.

Hello Skybuck,

The German article is somewhat misleading.

The abstract form here shows what it really is. It's an integrated optical 1
to 4
demultiplexer (170.8Gb/s -> 42.7Gb/s) based on a clever combination of
silicon and organic material.
Of course there can be additional processing implemented in the silicon
part.
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v3/n4/abs/nphoton.2009.25.html

Best regards,
Helmut
Germany

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Hello,

German story about a processor/cpu(?) which uses silicon and carves lanes
inside the silicon and fills it with some kind of organic substance...
then it's heated to vaporizing point... the lanes transmit at the speed of
light ?!

Pretty cool.

Link to german article:

http://www.kit.edu/fzk/idcplg?IdcService=KIT&node=4211&document=ID_068326

Speaking of organic computing...:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.arch/browse_frm/thread/a985196455d0fd26



;^o