Silicon Photonics Hardware Demo

[TahreyUK]

So this is different from regular fibre optic ethernet... how? Apart from a small magnitude speed increase?

[TahreyUK]

(don't get me wrong, maybe there is something i've missed, but it looks much like the existing tech to my eyes - can you fill us in with more detail, maybe do a compare/contrast?)

[AprilShowers317]

I'm a Geek Chick this peeks my interest

[loasolidsnakemgs]

Can it run holographic porn?

[SEThatered]

@rowtypo

Ehem i didn't say "money", i said "profit".

A research does not guarantee a solid positive result, yet it still needs investment.

(it is a "risk factor"- a scary word for any company)

Of course there are corporations that manage to balance profit with progress.

(like mac, dyson, subaru, nvidia)

But majority of big corporations does not care much for progress, because they are chasing profit only

(mcdonalds, chrysler, walmart, bp)

And it is those "profit guzzlers" i can't stand!

[SirFact]

Money is holding back the entire planet wait until people actually realize that

[SEThatered]

@SirFact

Profit vs progress.

No company would bother with research for new, until they sold you all the old crap they have.

[noezzi]

@SirFact So true, a world without money free's people from labor and give's everybody limitless innovation to work towards "something", rather than working all this week, to put gas in my car next week.

[griptick]

Great, intel will give us Light Peak before they support USB 3 -_-

[tomyloveu]

present usb 3..... soon light peak....... future 50G Silicon Photonics Link

[quadsnipable]

i dont understand! haha

[tankerspanker]

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

[KATENOK1977]

японцы предложили фотонную систему передачи данных еще в 80 х годах...они предлагали использовать пучки света... здесь пиндосы просто доработали систему;)

[ILoveEpicMusic]

Sweet

[Tariqghrayyib]

when does the public expect a show off. like a real demonstration of what is possible? and how secure is something like this....because if this is user friendly i can see a new peripheral in the making. just imagine using SSD with this. substitute for SATA here we come.

[destinationpsp]

@Tariqghrayyib i think this will too be used with internet networks

[Tariqghrayyib]

@destinationpsp and about internet networks. probably for future racks and networks that supply a business or office. theres no way wiring like this would be put in - ground to supply homes otherwise. 

[destinationpsp]

@Tariqghrayyib oh and this will not replace sata, not yet. intel said they are working to make a microchip that works with their current ones but not replace their current ones. they said we have to wait five years for this to be available. what will replace sata for now is light peak, it can do 10gb/s.

[Tariqghrayyib]

@destinationpsp not yet :) honestly tho. with the EVGA SR2 out. people are spending some serious cash on this hardware. i wouldnt imagine this light peak being cheap when it does come out. even when it does. it will be outdated by this silicon photonics. any who. no matter how fast they are or how fast intel can make things. it takes at least another 1 year just for the industry to follow up on it. :( - sad face.

[destinationpsp]

@Tariqghrayyib i dont expect it to be cheap either. but intel did say that the silicon photonic chips can be as cheap as one dollar!!

[rick62008]

Besides this reducing energy comsumption in chips, could it also reduce\eliminate heat and electromigration in a chip?

[xanhort]

Nerd shall rule

Not

Even

Remotely

Dorky

[FuriousCoder]

Electronic circuits in modern CPU buses can carry 12.8 Gbits/second, but only over a very short distance. The advantage here is that, by turning the electrons into photons, and then back, you can get that same bandwidth per channel (light frequency) over a long fiber optic cable.

The fact that it's done directly on silicon means that it's inexpensive enough for mass production, and can be deployed everywhere: Server farms, home applications, etc, not just major Trans-Oceanic fiber lines.

[Anphase]

It's a double rainbow all the way!

[sw911iz112]

Intel you guys are the best!

[ChazZeromus]

Intel, we make it awesome.

[eyewitness043]

How did Silicone based fiber optic mediums become so more advanced than the silicone chips themselves if integrated circuit technology was developed at the same time by the same people?

It seems like fiber optic cables are on version 8.0 while the chips themselves are only on version 2.0

Doesn't make sense.

[LanceWinslow4]

wow, wow, wow, just awesome! This is a friggin game changer, way to go, got to love American Innovation and Intel.

[999CATZ]

pc and notebooks would be too fast till the network server crash big time

[evofreak1304]

This is amazing

[CSSIcemaN]

OMG! 50GPS! Thats JUST COOL

[saigokun]

Interesting clip, although it was sometimes difficult to hear what was said due to the background noise. Thanks for posting it.

I wonder who is interested in this astronomical speed.

[ima5150]

@saigokun Me

[sexyloser]

Did he say 12 and a half gigabits/sec per channel???!!

Electronic circuits carry 512 bits/sec per channel. There's no way that carries 12.5 gigabits/sec. That would be astronomically large jump over electronic circuits in speed and capacity...

[LehdaRi]

Waiting for graphene processors.

[mowglycdb]

@LehdaRi  based on light circuits xP

[vava85]

Coolest shit ever!

[Henppa7]

Its a rainbow cannon! WHIII

[justmymage]

whit intel you can.

[omatu1]

breakthrough!

[overclockxp]

Apple just put out a press release that if the receiver is cupped just right then the signal goes down to 56k. 

[RtFusion]

watch?v=RWhcwVxI2sQ *2010*

watch?v=LU8BsfKxV2k  *2007*

[RtFusion]

IIRC, IBM has been working on this for several years now but I don't recall any demos like this one though.

[JCB4CXLWT]

The future seems to be taking it's sweet time.

[richcsst]

Imagine being able to have an array of processors in one box, have an array of memory in another box and I/O taken care of in another box. Supercomputers could be much less complex yet faster and more efficient.

For personal computers, motherboards could be better designed without the need of placing speed dependent chips right next to each other. Imagine being able to add extra memory in a drive bay instead of on the board. Oh the possibilities!

[MaximussPoosus]

Great news; Now.

Why is the HardOCP forums down?

[redgatewolvarine]

@MaximussPoosus

the [H]ardOCP main page says it's because of forum maintenance...