IBM Has a Trillion-Bit, Insane Bandwidth "Holey Optochip"

[mcd023]

[citation][nom]olaf[/nom]yeah ... 10mb avrg ... right ... if i'd only get 10mb from my isp i'd be extremely pissed off[/citation]
ah shutup! you and your 10mb+. 😉 (from my 6mb)

 

[mcd023]

holey optochip batman!

 

[yumri]

yes it has a ton of bandwidth but how fast is the core or the cores in it and how efficient is it really as if it can transfer 1Tbps but only can compute 1/10 of that then 9/10s of the product is useless. Also what about L1,L2 and L3 Cache as they also come into play when you are doing a lot of highly threaded things as this must be or have one super fast core in it to go together with all that bandwidth. But i hope it is at least a dual core in the prototype as anything less will not even be suitable for home use. with that i hope it was modeled after that 100 core MIT chip and has the cores and the bandwidth to boot any and all competition away from its glory.

 

[obsama1]

[citation][nom]IndignantSkeptic[/nom]So it's super fast, super power efficient, and can be manufactured using today's techniques. I'd say that should mean we'll see it available in a couple of decades. That should be enough time for the scientists to convince the Republicans that it won't open the Hell Portal.[/citation]

Trashing people FTW!
/s

/From a Republican who believes in the advancement and future of technology.

 

[jryan388]

Since when is 116GB the equivalent of 500 HD movies? More like 3 or so...

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]frombehind[/nom]so... When do i get to download all those HD movies in 1 second?[/citation]

Apparently you have exceeded your data cap by a few gigabytes. Here's a $100 fine for such violation. Have a nice day.

 

[velocityg4]

Now if only Verizon or Surewest would lay fiber in my area and actually bring it to the house. Rather than AT&T Uverse that only goes fiber to neighborhoods then splices it into copper for as far as they can get away with for there lackluster TV service and paltry internet speeds which can't come close to competing with cable modems.

 

[ap3x]

Wasn't this thing in the movie Immortals? j/k

 

[nebun]

ok, now let's bring a small version of this highly efficient chip to the mobile markey.....we need it, because batteries aren't improving all that much

 

[alidan]

so...

its the cpu
its the internet
its storage...

can someone tell us what the application of this is? because all i see is it makes something fast, and they are using metrics that we may know to describe it. i mean i have to be missing something major to have gotten 9 down votes at least, when i asked this before.

 

[rantoc]

Shame most USA users wont have any use of that, their only allowed to use about 1 second of that and then their data capped for life with todays generous "unlimited" dataplans!

 

[Chaz21]

[citation][nom]IndignantSkeptic[/nom]So it's super fast, super power efficient, and can be manufactured using today's techniques. I'd say that should mean we'll see it available in a couple of decades. That should be enough time for the scientists to convince the Republicans that it won't open the Hell Portal.[/citation]

Might take a little longer than that. They haven't been convinced that Darwin didn't come out of that Portal yet!

 

[mayne92]

I don't see this jump from what we have now to this chip happening in one swoop because that would be lost revenue from gradually getting to such speeds.

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]IndignantSkeptic[/nom]So it's super fast, super power efficient, and can be manufactured using today's techniques. I'd say that should mean we'll see it available in a couple of decades. That should be enough time for the scientists to convince the Republicans that it won't open the Hell Portal.[/citation]
...I heard the chip was made by using solar panels from Solyndra. :S

 

[Chaz21]

[citation][nom]roym6[/nom]*facepalm* What does the government have to do with technological advancements.[/citation]
It's called subsides.
[citation]Do liberals have that much animosity against republicans that they have to bag on them on non-political related fields?[citation]
Why yes - we do.

 

[IndignantSkeptic]

*facepalm* What does the government have to do with technological advancements. Do liberals have that much animosity against republicans that they have to bag on them on non-political related fields?

It's religiots' lethally incorrect thoughts about science that are the main reason for my objections to them. I would have them not only thrown out of the government, but I'd have them prosecuted for even thinking they have the right to be president of the USA, for the same reason that it's prosecutable for someone to try to drive a vehicle when they are drunk.

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]jryan388[/nom]Since when is 116GB the equivalent of 500 HD movies? More like 3 or so...[/citation]

116GB is about 24 regular DVDs.

Reporters.... good with words; not so good with math.
Than again, they just 'report' facts fed to them of course 🙂

 

[mr_tuel]

So I would hit my Suddenlink throughput cap (250 GB) in less than 2 seconds, and in a month I could easily exceed it by about 305 petabytes... if I'm doing my math right.

 

[zachusaman]

[citation][nom]roym6[/nom]*facepalm* What does the government have to do with technological advancements. Do liberals have that much animosity against republicans that they have to bag on them on non-political related fields?[/citation]
NASA ring a bell? military research?
huge amounts of technological advances are made because of government research projects.

 

[knowom]

I was getting about 10-12mb downloads typically from my onboard nic I switched to a pci 10/100 lynx nic and did some comparisons and was getting around 18-22mb from the pci nic. I have a intel pci-e nic on the way now and am hoping it's even quicker, but I'll say I was astonished and shocked how slow the onboard was by comparison to the pci nic I thought there would be some difference, but didn't expect that.

 

[sh4dow83]

[citation][nom]roym6[/nom]*facepalm* What does the government have to do with technological advancements.[/citation]

everything. you don't know much about history, huh? not even the very thing you were using to send out this message you wrote...

[citation]Do liberals have that much animosity against republicans that they have to bag on them on non-political related fields?[/citation]

there is no such thing.

 

[Haserath]

[citation][nom]yumri[/nom]yes it has a ton of bandwidth but how fast is the core or the cores in it and how efficient is it really as if it can transfer 1Tbps but only can compute 1/10 of that then 9/10s of the product is useless. Also what about L1,L2 and L3 Cache as they also come into play when you are doing a lot of highly threaded things as this must be or have one super fast core in it to go together with all that bandwidth. But i hope it is at least a dual core in the prototype as anything less will not even be suitable for home use. with that i hope it was modeled after that 100 core MIT chip and has the cores and the bandwidth to boot any and all competition away from its glory.[/citation]
1Tbps=125GBps... bits and bytes are two different things.
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This also looks to be a NIC type of device, not a CPU...

 

[aidynphoenix]

[citation][nom]jryan388[/nom]Since when is 116GB the equivalent of 500 HD movies? More like 3 or so...[/citation]

HD is a very broad statement. we first started calling anything higher than televisions standard resolution of 640x480 HD. we called it that, so that the ignorant consumer knew there was something special about the image. so basically your really old games such as diablo1, starcraft, and many other games, were all high definition because they could run at atleast 800x600. any old standard CRT monitor 15" or more can do atleast 1024x768, which is a higher resolution than HD 720p. so if we were talking about Blueray rip movies 1920x1080, then yea only about 10 movies per second.

 

[cookoy]

IBM said that key to improving the speed of the chip was adding 48 holes

i say we add even more holes

 

[lotri]

Unfortunately, those of us with Comcast or AT&T will run out of bandwidth rather quickly at that rate.