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IBM claims optical chip breakthrough
News Ideally, companies experimenting in this arena want to make these chip-size optical components out of silicon wafers to keep the cost low. Researchers at IBM have published a paper demonstrating how optical signals — photons that represent data...
[December 21, 2006, 7:45]
Peregrine optical chips ready to fly
News The company will make public details on its new Flipped Optoelectric Chip next week at the Optical Fibre Communication Conference in Anaheim, Calif. Ultimately, the company's goal is to combine the wireless and optical chips with manufacturing...
[March 13, 2001, 8:07]
UK start-up to commercialise optical silicon
News 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 technology to break through some of the barriers facing chipmakers as processors grow more...
[November 5, 2003, 17:20]
Intel demonstrates silicon laser
News The laser represents the latest step in Intel's plans to adopt optical links to connect computers, chips or eventually even subcomponents on the same chip. Intel has devised a laser out of silicon, the latest in a series of steps that could take...
[February 17, 2005, 14:05]
Intel gets optical with fibre
News That's slower than conventional optical technology -- and even some standard connections in PCs today -- but the entire unit is housed inside a chip package and should be cheaper than current optical parts.
[March 1, 2004, 14:25]
ST Micro sees silicon light
News By combining optical and electrical functions onto the same chip, the European semiconductor giant could not only create more efficient chips, it could reduce the number of chips inside of communications equipment or set-top boxes, which currently...
[October 29, 2002, 8:01]
Xerox chip makes fibre cheaper
News According to Xerox, the development is a breakthrough because it successfully combines optical MEMS and planar light circuits on a single chip. In Xerox's chip, silicon serves to house optical channels.
[March 27, 2003, 15:09]
Sapphire when ready for laser chips
News By combining optical and electrical techniques, they claim that chips made this way can communicate between themselves up to a hundred times faster than those using purely electrical methods. Optical receivers can also be built into the silicon...
[January 8, 2002, 17:45]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
News Definitely, the power handling and optical interconnects are the two biggest issues" facing chip designers, he said. But Pinfold called optical's move into internal chip interconnects, which link transistors, "controversial" at the moment.
[October 19, 2001, 9:50]
The Year Ahead: Gazing into the chip crystal ball
News Sadik Esener from the University of California in San Diego reports on practical ways to bond optical components to standard chip packages, and on demonstration systems that run at up to 2.5 gigabit per second (gbps), linking two chips a foot...
[December 27, 2001, 6:31]
Nanotubes shed new light on fibre optics
News With this light source combined with fast electronic transistors, light modulators, light guides and detectors, the optical chip is in view. Several companies are currently trying to find ways to combine optical and silicon technologies.
[May 2, 2003, 7:57]
'Opto-chip' could revolutionise telecommunications
News These so-called optical chips are in fact polymeric electro-optic modulators designed to act as a bridge between fibre optic cables and existing electronic devices. Modulators act like translators, encoding electrical signals onto optical beams...
[April 7, 2000, 11:37]
IBM's supercomputer chip breakthrough more PR than IT
Blog The IBM modulator is 100 to 1,000 times smaller in size compared to previously demonstrated modulators of its kind, paving the way for many such devices and eventually complete optical routing networks to be integrated onto a single chip.
[December 6, 2007, 14:43]
Silicon-based optics to reach market 'in two years'
News Dickinson and other chip executives, however, believe that a lot of the costs come from the fact that optical emerged from the telecommunications industry. Luxtera, a start-up with a fairly strong silicon pedigree, says it will marry fast optical...
[March 29, 2005, 17:20]
Intel picks up telecom pace
News Its optical portfolio now includes 36 companies, including T-Networks and Princeton Optronics. That's what we're concentrating on in our optical division -- driving the cost right down. CNET News.com recently spoke with Maloney to get his take on...
[May 26, 2002, 21:38]
Apple Power Mac G5 review
Reviews In addition, you'll find ports for FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 (two), Ethernet, RJ-11, analogue audio in and out, optical digital audio in and out, as well as jacks for external Bluetooth and AirPort antennae.
[October 29, 2003, 7:50]
Intel: Chips will network the world
News Optical connections will be used inside computers to reduce power and heat. Over the next 10 years, the chipmaker will turn its research and manufacturing expertise toward driving down the cost and size of radios, optical networking equipment and...
[March 1, 2002, 10:53]
Dell SmartPC 250N review
Reviews Like all desktop CPU-based notebooks we’ve seen, the SmartPC 250N is a three-spindle desktop replacement system: the hard disk is a 40GB, 5,400rpm IBM drive; the optical drive is a Toshiba DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo unit; and there’s a floppy drive...
[August 14, 2002, 10:13]
Gateway's priceless notebooks review
Reviews The NO50 is a sizeable notebook measuring 36cm wide by 26.7cm deep by 3.4-3.65cm thick and weighing 2.9kg with a 6-cell battery and an optical drive. The weight rises to 3kg with a 9-cell battery and optical drive, and 3.1kg with a 9-cell battery...
[May 26, 2009, 9:52]
Apple Power Mac G5 review
Reviews Both front and back panel feature this mesh overlay, and the optical drive opening is sleek and flat. Both the front and the back of the machine are covered with breathable mesh aluminium; the front features a perfectly flat optical-drive opening...
[June 24, 2003, 7:11]
