IBM Combines Electrics, Optics On Same Chip
IBM says the technology will enable smaller, faster and more efficient processors on the path to exascale computing.
The new technology, called CMOS integrated silicon nanophotonics, was developed by IBM's Research Labs and have already achieved a 10x denser integration structure than today's chips, according to IBM. The company said that a single transceiver channel with all accompanying optical and electrical circuitry occupies about 0.5 mm2. The technology would allow single-chip transceivers with area sizes as small as 4x4 mm2, which, however, are cable of transmitting more than 1 Tb/s of data.
“Our CMOS Integrated Nanophotonics breakthrough promises unprecedented increases in silicon chip function and performance via ubiquitous low-power optical communications between racks, modules, chips or even within a single chip itself,” said Yurii Vlasov, Manager of the Silicon Nanophotonics Department at IBM Research. “The next step in this advancement is to establishing manufacturability of this process in a commercial foundry using IBM deeply scaled CMOS processes.”
The company claims that the chips can be produced on a standard CMOS processing line without the need for special tooling. There was no information if and when the technology will be put into production.
screw x86! just give me the 64-bit chip and let me try to max this puppy out..note, i say try.
IBM is more in Service Delivery and Mainframes, AMD / Intel is in consumer chips. 2 different fields.
"10x denser integration structure than today's chips"
scares me!
I can assure you, that I'm completely incapable of harming a human, or through inaction cause a human to be harmed.
I am however flexible on the terms "human" and "harm".
getting info from one side of the chip to the other is quite challenging with electrons and copper.
oooo or a 5,000,000 X PCI-E slot .... droool
Do you even know what x86 is?
32-bit chip? if were talking about the same thing here, jackass.
x86 is actually the instruction set architecture that virtually all modern AMD/Intel consumer level microprocessors are based on. x86 has nothing to do with the distinction between 32 abd 64-bit chips. What you believe to be 64-bit chips are actually still part of the x86 family of processors. x64 is just a shorthand for x86-64, the 64-bit extension of the x86 instruction set.
Next time you decide to call someone a jackass, you should do your homework first. Especially when said person never insulted you first and called you names. It only makes you look like what you called him.
I agree ...those comments really made chickenhoagie look like a well......
especially since he didnt know what he was even talking about..
it would really be fun if IBM bought out AMD. imagine....apple goes back to using IBM (amd) chips..... field day for amd fanboys.....wishful thinking.