Optical Interconnects for Chips Possible

"Optical can potentially attain much higher system bandwidth with lower electromagnetic interference", says Ian Young, Intel Fellow and Director of Advanced Circuit and Technology Integration.
Researchers at Intel's Components Research Lab have taken a significant step in the direction of optical interconnect technology by developing a prototype device that is based on low-power CMOS transceivers and high-volume commodity packaging technology and attained an aggregate bandwidth of more than 8 giga-transfers per second. By building many of the device components on a standard CMOS process, the researchers have sought to remove some of the inherent difficulties of optical interconnect technology and provided a foundation for chip-to-chip interconnects over the next decade.

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