IBM's breakthrough chip technology lights the path to exascale computing

[myuncle]

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-ibm-breakthrough-chip-technology-path.html

Can Microsoft or AMD use this Nanophotonics chip technology? Can they say goodbye to Moore's Law after this breakthrough?

 

[Topher925]

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-ibm-breakthrough-chip-technology-path.html

Can Microsoft or AMD use this Nanophotonics chip technology? Can they say goodbye to Moore's Law after this breakthrough?

No. Not unless IBM also invents the optical transistor. IBM has only created a way of implementing optical communication on a microchip, not optically recreating the logic that semiconductors do.

 

[myuncle]

thanks, do you think IBM will make optical transistors?