IBM: Switch to a new world

IBM announced that it has built a nanophotonic switch that can control flow of data on chip using pulses of light instead of electrons.

• The nanophotonic switch is 100 times smaller than a human hair.
• This optical switch is supposed to give greater performance and use less energy.
• IBM says that using optical communication between the cores would dramatically cut processor's energy needs and the heat it emits.
• IBM's dream to turn Super Computers to laptops may become a reality. So, by 2020 we may see Laptop Super Computers.
• The new chip would require the energy required to power a light bulb as against the super computer, which would require energy to power hundreds of homes.

read more...
see photo

~R.A.V.I.N.D.E.R
There's much more... keep visiting