Research From Duke University Moves Us One Step Closer To Optical Computing

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Researchers at Duke University have developed a device that could pave the way for microchips to use photons rather than electrons to process and transmit data.

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[Kewlx25]

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[scolaner]

"Fluorescent materials used in [strike]tradition[/strike] traditional LED designs"

Fixed, thank you.

 

[TallestJon96]

It seems to me that regular silicon is becoming harder and harder to utilize with quick growth. Intel's announcement of a tick-to k-tock cycle demonstrates that the leading CPU manufacturer cannot keep up with Moore's Law, and I would argue that Moore's law slowed even before this.

I think in order to keep up with Moore's law new methods like this will have to be implemented. Obviously this process isn't nearly in a manufacturing stage, or even taped out for a practical CPU design, but if first generation optical computing elements can operate at 90ghz, then there is a lot of room to grow from our 4-5ghz.

 

[Wisecracker]

What the article left out: The researchers from Dook went to school in Chapel Hill ...