Animation: How Does Silicon Photonics Work?

[mybhear]

nice



[Zareste]

hey a new thing you probably stole from someone else

[YFLOInternational]

There really is no such thing as Moore's Law. It's a theory... not a real scientific law. Just sayin' ...

[AngeredKabar]

It's like having a gay pride parade INSIDE my computer. AWESOME.

[kamikazeOS]

I hope this comes out this year

1 standard ftw...simplicity is the key

[4d616c65737469636b]

i want to see a Zettabyte harddrive in my lifetime, it is equal to a trillion gigabytes

[903harman]

emmm.. imagine all the porn you could download per second :)

NO MORE LAG!!! :D

[tankerspanker]

Am I nerd if this gives me a woody? Nahh...

[DraySmith84]

Sounds Fancy...

[Danielitz123]

WTF! nooooooooooooooo!!!

[pakau]

yes... envolution.. but this should not belong to intel.. it should belong to humanity.

no profit  FTW

[truefictions]

@pakau

Ya.. let other people do all the work inventing things so you may enjoy them. We should give you a whip to make those lazy bastards more efficient.

[Seradeool]

@pakau You're an idiot.

[Loksfox]

@pakau

kkkk ur such an idiot dude

[pharodox]

We have to buy a harddisk with a airplane size

[GreyForce9]

Evolution my friends...

[geodesicks]

Wait a second. 1 TB PER MOTHERFUCKING SECOND?! Did I hear that right?

[moddingpark]

@geodesicks Actually it's 1 Terabit per second, which is about 128 GigaBytes per second. Anyway it's really fast.

[neomasterx7]

@geodesicks Yeah u did. This will be wonderful for Datacenters...

[djtyper]

wow

[60moments]

HOLY SHIT!

[Jezuzac]

1 Tps? Shiiiiiiiiit

[sexyloser]

So how long til we get CPUs that use integrated optical circuits instead of integrated electrical circuits?

I want a 14.6 yottahertz single core processor.

[RedHineyMonkey1]

Good work intel

[SSSerriform]

Thanks. Helpful video.

[Nugget1080]

they should intergrate tiny fiber between cpu, ram, north bridge, and south bridge, ... and the PCIe on motherboards,

And also they should really push hard to implement this onto portable devices, hopefully replacing USB3.0

[FXerGerFra]

@Nugget1080

They already planed the implementation of this technique for mobile devices, USB 3.0 is just a bridge solution.

Still I see no advantage of this on a motherboard as long as a cpu outputs an electric current and not photons. The distance on the Board is very short so encoding current to light and then decoding the light to current seems like a huge bottleneck.

[christophelienard]

@FXerGerFra

decoding a data signal to a light signal actual is'nt a botlleneck; the problem with coper wire is that as the frequency goes up (amount of data per sec) so does the resistance. thats why your cpu works at 1to 5ghz; and your motherboard at 22 less or more . simply becouse you couldnt sent such high frseuncies trough a cable longer then 20 cm (3ghz) its even so, if one cable is 10 cm longer then another, at 3ghz they wil give different signals. but; anyway; it has huge advantages/ 

[MaBuSt]

@christophelienard Agree with everyone you said but to add to that, and go along with FxergerFra's post, the efficiency of these Si, Si/Ge lasers is still very low, comparatively and so really power hungry-heat intensive. The integration of non group-IV materials with silicon has relieved a lot of this problem, but an high efficiency all group-IV laser would be ideal for the cmos integration So for a mobile device where you operate on battery, that efficiency neck starts to come into place.

[FXerGerFra]

@MaBuSt

Yes thats true.

Beside of that I see no point of attaching todays technology ram whit a 100GB/s technology what is the point of such a expensive Interface when your ram could only write at less then 10GB/s, it would require a whole new architecture with numerous ram channels running parallel.

[Clipster15]

@FXerGerFra I could be understanding something wrong, but as I see it, they could still use these in replace of current data transfer lines which would speed up the process of getting data to you. You wouldn't be able to process it faster but it would hit you faster. So it would still help (not saying noticeably.) Though I doubt anything major like that would be done until devices can match with it lol.

[PensFan108]

@Clipster15 Yes, you are right that using this technology for the end user would be mostly pointless right now (although I think it would make a bigger difference than you think, but it would still not be nearly as fast as the optical technology itself can be.) The point is more or less for network backbones. It isn't meant for a single stream of data (to/from your house) but rather for the thousands (maybe millions?) of streams of data that go through the internet backbone at the same time.

[swordbellums]

this reminds me so much of a rachet and clank commercial

[Zemus386]

Fiber optics have been in use for networking purposes for more than a couple decades now. So now we finally have a self contained box which couples the processing and memory elements with controllers that transmit the data as light pulses? Doesn't seem like that big of a leap forward to me. By the way I wrote this before I watched the video ;D

[Thorndepth]

So awesome, I can watch p0rn in the speed of light!

[youngnam]

Tb, not TB. there's a difference, dudes. your graphic is deceptive. still, this is great news. i like.

[bitchskiller]

WTF ? 1TB/s

I habe 0.120 Kb/s

[V3ctorPT]

This totally kills USB3.0... :D Hey Intel, put this tech in your chipsets for sandybridge :)