Items tagged with Silicon Photonics

by Joel Hruska - Wed, Sep 04, 2013

Intel Announces New High-Efficiency Atom C2000, Demoes Silicon Photonic Interconnect

Intel announced a pair of new products today designed to boost data center efficiency, shrink footprints, and allow for faster deployments. The first are new microservers based on the C2000 (codename: Avoton) Atom architecture. We've discussed the Bay Trail Atom core several times and Intel's plans for the technology... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Jul 27, 2010

Intel Announces Laser Signaling Breakthrough

Electronic signaling using copper is officially old-and-busted—or at least Intel thinks it will be soon. The company announced today that it has constructed a silicon-based optical connection with an integrated laser that's capable of moving data at 50Gbps. The term "integrated laser" refers to the fact that the optical data connection... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Sun, Dec 07, 2008

Intel's Silicon Photonics Advancements

Intel's Silicon Photonics Advancement Aims to Accelerate Future Computing, Communications SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 7, 2008 - Intel researchers have made the next advance in the field of Silicon Photonics by achieving world-record performance using a silicon-based Avalanche Photodetector (APD) that could lower costs and improve performance... Read more...

by Gregory Sullivan - Thu, Dec 06, 2007

IBM Knows More About Silicon Photonics Than You

Well, I assume they do. They seem to know more about it than anybody. In a breakthrough paper delivered in the Optics Express journal, IBM has demonstrated their method for greatly improving the transfer of information between multiple computer chip cores, substituting optical signals sent through silicon for electrical pulses... Read more...