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

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IBM has made a significant advancement in chip technology by implementing optical communication on microchips through nanophotonics. However, this breakthrough does not equate to the creation of optical transistors, which are necessary for fully replacing traditional semiconductor logic. As a result, companies like Microsoft and AMD cannot fully leverage this technology to move beyond Moore's Law without the development of optical transistors. The discussion highlights the limitations of current advancements and the need for further innovations in optical computing to achieve a paradigm shift in chip technology.
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myuncle said:
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.
 
thanks, do you think IBM will make optical transistors?
 

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