Photonics: The End of the Copper Wire Age

[Guest]

This unlikely marriage of silicon and lasers can give us a data transfer bandwidth of at least 50Gbps.

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[digiex]

Next... The Skynet

 

[lasaldude]

It will be pushed back to 2020 unless the Porn Industry adopts it somehow, someway and then it will be out before the world ends in 2012.

 

[lasaldude]

[citation][nom]digiex[/nom]Next... The Skynet[/citation]

That's Google's Job. Intel will build the chips in the "Robot servants." read terminators.

 

[NightLight]

There's so much potential here. Get this into our homes Intel!

 

[santfu]

+1 NightLight, but, we're already far from saturating the current interfaces. Could be a while before we need it.

 

[dman3k]

Why so many thumbs down? Is it because we're all so eager to get this technology in our computers and not willing to wait 5 years for Intel to not monopolize this or is the "next... skynet" joke not funny?

I thought it's pretty hilarious. But damn it, Intel! I want lightpeak next year on my pc/laptop, and 5 years on my mobile phone! Damn it!

 

[TeraMedia]

The only thing preventing the use of this for remote PCIe connectors is latency. If a NB with lightpeak-enabled remote PCIe connections can accept the added latency of e.g. a 10 ns signal xfer delay delay (3 meter fiber cable), then you could effectively connect a high-performance graphics card to a laptop with up to a 10 ft cable, and have a high-powered portable gaming rig with low-power operational capabilities. Just a thought.

 

[elbert]

Would be nice to transfer about 6.25GB's a second.

 

[Hilarion]

Ever since they discovered that lasers can be modulated and data sent over them them have been predicting "the end of copper wire!" Still seems to be an awful lot of it around the last 30 years since I first heard that phrase.

 

[jaysbob]

woo faster porn downloads!

 

[jeraldjunkmail]

Just gave EVERYONE a thumbs up. Stop the hatred people!

 

[zachary k]

it is not going to create skynet, that joke is as old as "will it play crysis?".
anyway, this is a nice step forward. who knows, usb 4.0 could be all photonics!

 

[wotan31]

[citation][nom]zachary k[/nom]it is not going to create skynet, that joke is as old as "will it play crysis?".anyway, this is a nice step forward. who knows, usb 4.0 could be all photonics![/citation]
Ugh, USB just needs to die and go away. Crappy protocol, suitable for joysticks and mice, and that's about it.

 

[hawkwindeb]

Other possibilities w/o lasers: proximity computing/communication between chips that are very very close almost on top of each other with no wire traces between them. This was from 2004.
http://labs.oracle.com/spotlight/2004-09-20.feature-proximity.html

 

[jrnyfan]

Yeah but can I play crysis over that connection?

 

[thillntn]

Soon computers will have more silicon than a breast implant?

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]digiex[/nom]Next... The Skynet[/citation]

[citation][nom]lasaldude[/nom]That's Google's Job. Intel will build the chips in the "Robot servants." read terminators.[/citation]

I think the MPIAA and the RIAA will be the one building the first online AI to find torrents. Then the AI will sue us all until the race goes extinct. The only survivors will be lawyers which by then will have lost all sense of humanity.

 

[decepticon]

[citation][nom]thillntn[/nom]Soon computers will have more silicon than a breast implant?[/citation]
You mean silicone?

 

[Thunderfox]

[citation][nom]TommySch[/nom]The only survivors will be lawyers which by then will have lost all sense of humanity.[/citation]
Implying they have any *now*...