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Breakthrough technology to enable much faster computing
Friday December 03, 2010 05:40:46 PM ,
IANS
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Washington:
A new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical
devices on the same silicon bit, would enable smaller, faster and
more power-efficient chips than is possible with conventional
ones.
The new technology, called CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics,
is the result of a decade of development at IBM's global research
labs.
The patented technology will change and improve the way computer
chips communicate -- by integrating optical devices and functions
directly onto a silicon chip, enabling over 10-fold improvement in
performance, according to an IBM statement.
IBM anticipates that Silicon Nanophotonics will dramatically
increase the speed and performance between chips, helping the
company to develop the world's most powerful supercomputer that
can perform one million trillion calculations or an exaflop in a
second.
An exascale supercomputer is expected to be 1,000 times faster
than the fastest machine today.
"The development of the Silicon Nanophotonics technology brings
the vision of on-chip optical interconnections much closer to
reality," said T.C. Chen, vice-president, Science and Technology,
IBM Research.
"With optical communications embedded into the processor chips,
the prospect of building power-efficient computer systems with
performance at the exaflop level is one step closer to reality,"
Chen said.
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