Intel Approaches Optic Computer

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Intel researchers are a step closer to creating chips that use light instead of electrons, but production remains over the horizon.

Yesterday, team of Intel researchers unveiled a high-speed silicon optical modulator that is capable of encoding data at speeds up to 40G bits per second.

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