Futuristic Intel Chip

The evolution of computer chips has been relentless over the last few years with primarily Intel and AMD running at the forefront, now Intel have come up with what could be the future of computing, made completely out of silicon and able to encode 200 gigabits of data per second via a beam of light, which when compared to the fastest available networks currently available doubles their speed at the first attempt, all on a tiny chip no bigger than the size of a fingernail.

Intel’s chip works by taking a beam of light and literally cutting it into eight individual sections, which each have their own modulator that places data into the light, and then each individual data stream is recombined to provide the data at super fast speeds.

Current chips are based on copper wiring, and this new technology pushes us toward a future that will use beams of light instead, Intel intends to put 25 of these modulators on a single chip, each clocking at 40Gbps, with lasers instead of fiber optics, hopefully the first of these “super” chips will reach stores in 3-5 years.

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