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March 12, 2012, 11:15:40 PM
#16
they always say these nice things but they never release them Sad

They said 1 THz was coming in 2000...
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March 12, 2012, 10:19:16 PM
#15
Doesn't every optical semiconductor have holes for the light to pass through?
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March 08, 2012, 10:56:29 PM
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...for a total of 960 gigabits, just below a terabit. IBM is unveiling the prototype chip today at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles, calling it "the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits of information per second."

wrong!

that's like saying usain bolt was the first to run 100m in 9 seconds.

Is this one of those base 10 vs base 2 problems?

yeah duh, normally i don't get caught out by that but looks like i was wrong this time... 960 'gigabits' is 1030792151040 bits.
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March 08, 2012, 10:46:17 PM
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...for a total of 960 gigabits, just below a terabit. IBM is unveiling the prototype chip today at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles, calling it "the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits of information per second."

wrong!

that's like saying usain bolt was the first to run 100m in 9 seconds.

Is this one of those base 10 vs base 2 problems?
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March 08, 2012, 09:55:54 PM
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...for a total of 960 gigabits, just below a terabit. IBM is unveiling the prototype chip today at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles, calling it "the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits of information per second."

wrong!

that's like saying usain bolt was the first to run 100m in 9 seconds.
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March 08, 2012, 09:45:58 PM
#10

That looks about the size I was thinking of. The more light that gets through the better. Thanks!
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March 08, 2012, 07:00:54 PM
#7
This is cool, but it isn't a CPU. It's for high speed data transfer

It is a high speed interconnect to connect CPUs to each other and other devices.

F T F Me
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March 08, 2012, 06:47:34 PM
#6
This is cool, but it isn't a CPU. It's for high speed data transfer

It is a CPU... that's the high speed interconnect... think PCI-E on crack.

The article says...

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the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits of information per second."

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the first cpu to transfer one trillion bits of information per second."
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March 08, 2012, 06:35:26 PM
#5
This is cool, but it isn't a CPU. It's for high speed data transfer

It is a CPU... that's the high speed interconnect... think PCI-E on crack.
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March 08, 2012, 06:24:19 PM
#4
This is cool, but it isn't a CPU. It's for high speed data transfer
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March 08, 2012, 05:36:22 PM
#3
Oh sweet, maybe now we'll have a machine that can play Crysis.
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March 08, 2012, 04:29:59 PM
#2
Why are they rating this chip in "bits" instead of "hertz"?  Is it a chip solely for transmission/relay of data instead of calculations?
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March 08, 2012, 04:06:54 PM
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Article: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/holey-chip-ibm-drills-holes-into-optical-chip-for-terabit-per-second-speed.ars

I think I'll start drilling holes in my CPU and see if it speeds up  Grin.

I'm curious of what a chip like this might do for mining though. I'm guessing it would meet the output rates of current GPU's maybe but at much less wattage use(states 7.5 watts in the article).  Go easy on me though, talking outta my ass here.
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