Intel says: Let there be light!

Photonics? Where is trhe Doctor from Star Trek Voyager? He was a Photonic Life Form heh.

So is this just for moving Data, or will there be Processors based on this? To have a PC which uses LIGHT to move data around wold be fantastic. The heat factor would be much lower... Data moving over Copper Wired Connections create a lot of heat because of the EM fields created by a High Frequency Signal.

Gonna keep an eye on this tech, it could turn the computing world upside down!

The transmitter chip is composed of four such lasers, whose light beams each travel into an optical modulator that encodes data onto them at 12.5Gbps. The four beams are then combined and output to a single optical fiber for a total data rate of 50Gbps. At the other end of the link, the receiver chip separates the four optical beams and directs them into photo detectors, which convert data back into electrical signals. Both chips are assembled using low-cost manufacturing techniques familiar to the semiconductor industry

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This is QUITE PROVOKING!

Will be interesting how far this concept can advance.
Lot's of possibilities.