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Thursday, December 6, 2007

IBM’s Next Project: the Illudium Q-36 Electro-Optic Space Modulator

It’s still 10 to 12 years away from market, but when it arrives IBM’s new silicon photonics technology could transform even the lowliest Dell laptop into a portable Blue Gene.
The so-called Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator transmits data between between multiple cores on a chip using pulses of light through silicon, instead of electrical signals on wires. [...]

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