Israeli Processor Computes at Speed of Light - GoFuckYourself.com

On-top · 10-30-2003, 04:16 AM

Interesting...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ael_lenslet_dc

An Israeli start-up has developed a processor that uses optics instead of silicon, enabling it to compute at the speed of light, the company said.

SMG · 10-30-2003, 04:18 AM

cool ... I remember something about AMD or intel working on something like it recently though ...

KRL · 10-30-2003, 04:19 AM

The processor performs 8 trillion operations per second, equivalent to a super-computer and 1,000 times faster than standard processors, with 256 lasers performing computations at light speed.

Wow, those are impressive numbers.

On-top · 10-30-2003, 04:20 AM

I've seen lots of people talking about similar stuff as well. I saw Cisco was working into completely optical routers, so signals wouldn't have to be converted from optics to electricity to be routed.

This stuff is just getting nuts.

BlueDesignStudios · 10-30-2003, 05:00 AM

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Originally posted by On-top
I've seen lots of people talking about similar stuff as well. I saw Cisco was working into completely optical routers, so signals wouldn't have to be converted from optics to electricity to be routed.

This stuff is just getting nuts.

Yeah the optical to electric conversions is really slowing things down at the moment - when they get it all optical shit will just fly, optical has so many advantages over the electrical world..

mrthumbs · 10-30-2003, 05:05 AM

i have a flashlight that produces beams at the speed of light.

pretty high tech.

WiredGuy · 10-30-2003, 07:37 AM

That's way cool, I didn't think there would be a huge technological leap like that for a while...

WG

psili · 10-30-2003, 08:06 AM

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Originally posted by mrthumbs
i have a flashlight that produces beams at the speed of light.

pretty high tech.

blazi · 10-30-2003, 08:10 AM

this isn't as fast, not even close, but it's the fastest "PC" available and I think it's pretty cool: http://www.apple.com/powermac/

foe · 10-30-2003, 09:05 AM

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Originally posted by blazi
this isn't as fast, not even close, but it's the fastest "PC" available and I think it's pretty cool: http://www.apple.com/powermac/

ahh you made me laugh

loverboy · 10-30-2003, 09:08 AM

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Originally posted by KRL
The processor performs 8 trillion operations per second, equivalent to a super-computer and 1,000 times faster than standard processors, with 256 lasers performing computations at light speed.

Wow, those are impressive numbers.

superb! Kasparov is now fucked up again once he makes a test run on this micropro

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