March 22, 2006

Laser Chips Could Power Petaflop Computers

Laser communications chips capable of pumping data through the veins of gargantuan "petaflop" supercomputers have been demonstrated by NEC. The communications chips can transfer information through optical fibres at a blistering 25 gigabits per second - many times faster that the purely electronic interconnects used in today's supercomputers.

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