News Lightmatter Aims to Bridge Chiplets With Photonics

[Admin]

As chiplets are increasingly seen as the future of computation, Lightmatter aims to reduce power consumption and latency by interconnecting chips through light rather than wires.

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[jkflipflop98]

Oh boy. Another "photonics is gonna change it all!" article.

 

[washmc]

Oh boy. Another "photonics is gonna change it all!" article.

I mean eventually it will but yeah when is the real question.

 

[Deleted member 431422]

I mean eventually it will but yeah when is the real question.

It's this ridiculous way of writing that confuses people. I went with the flow at some point, but these days I rarely read them. Until I see a headline stating someone incorporated a tech, it's usually a waste of time. It's better to read science articles, even if one doesn't understand them.

 

[DougMcC]

I mean eventually it will but yeah when is the real question.

Even in an optimistic view of things, photonics will yield ~6 years worth of Moore's law. The speed of light is limited and not that much faster than the speed of electricity.

We are rapidly closing in on atomic level constraints for computing. This is why only 3 things really matter to the long term future of computing (+30 years):

3d stacking.
Quantum computing.
Subatomic computing.