A friend gave me this link and wanted to share it. Thought it was extremely interesting. The part I liked was: "...using light instead of wires, as much as 100 times more information can be sent between cores, while using 10 times less power and consequently generating less heat"
It will be interesting to see it implemented in future AMD CPU's. Whether that will as early as 2012 or late as 2020 is a guess. Coming up with an idea is the first step, engineering it is the next step, implementing it is the final step (unless you count marketing). One thing IBM is good at is innovative research.
Message edited by yipsl on 03-19-2008 at 10:15:34 PM
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