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UK start-up to commercialise optical silicon

...Si-Light, formed in order to exploit the university's breakthroughs in optical chip research, joins a growing list of companies seeking to use optical... Read more

5 November, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Motorola mixes up chip chemistry for faster circuits

Researchers combine silicon with gallium arsenide to create durable, cost-effective optical chips for the first time Read more

4 September, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

IBM claims optical chip breakthrough

Slower light signals could lead to faster chips Read more

21 December, 2006 by Michael Kanellos
Integrated Optical Microwave Channeliser

Integrated Optical Microwave Channeliser

An integrated optical chip based on an array of silica waveguide Fabry-Perot filters with... Read more

23 December, 2009
Enhancing tech inside Intel's photonics lab

Enhancing tech inside Intel's photonics lab

...In their work towards an integrated terabit optical chip, researchers at the photonics lab have created this chip capable of... Read more

12 March, 2010 by James Martin

Intel gets optical with fibre

...As frequency increases, optical attenuation occurs much more slowly than electrical attenuation." Optical chip company Primarion is working on similar technology. Both Intel and Primarion... Read more

1 March, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Nanotubes shed new light on fibre optics

...combined with fast electronic transistors, light modulators, light guides and detectors, the optical chip is in view." Besides its potential use in chips, fibre-optic... Read more

2 May, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

The Year Ahead: Gazing into the chip crystal ball

...ghost of Christmas future. Here are some of the highlights. Free Space Optical Chip-To-Chip Interconnects. All the processing speed improvements in the world... Read more

27 December, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

Intel to discontinue routers and switches

...in Denmark." Intel has other operations in the Scandinavian country, including an optical chip unit that stems from its acquisition last year of Giga A... Read more

20 June, 2001 by Ian Fried

2000 Roundup: Chips broke 1GHz, but market yawned

In a year when PC chips reached new heights of performance and efficiency, customers simply weren't buying Read more

26 December, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Beleaguered Bookham gets CFO

...it... Steve Abely has become the new chief financial officer of troubled optical chip-maker Bookham Technology. The company has been on the look out... Read more

27 September, 2001 by Kate Hanaghan

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