[转帖]Intel Introduces Laser Microchip

Santa Clara, Calif. (KCBS) -- There has been a major high-tech breakthrough with computer scientists at Intel saying they have developed a microchip that uses laser light.

KCBS reporter Matt Bigler in the Silicon Valley Bureau said for years some of the top computer experts in the world had said it couldn't be done and that putting lasers on computer chips was the stuff of science fiction.

Intel has announced that it has developed a chip at its photonics lab in Santa Clara that combines silicon with lasers. The bottom line is that data is being transferred using a laser light, which makes it 1,000 times faster than anything seen before.

"It was simply unimaginable a few years ago," said KCBS technology Analyst Larry Magid. "Every time people say things are going to slow down because we are reaching the physics limit of how fast these things will process, someone comes up with breakthrough technology and this is an example of this type of breakthrough technology."

Intel officials said the technology is still years away from use by consumers

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