Intel's Silicon Photonics Link boasts 50Gb/s transfers

[Airbot]

Intel has announced a new silicon-based optical data connection technology that is capable of transferring data at a rate of 50Gb/s and could reach speeds well beyond that. By using a combination of transmitter/receiver chips, lasers and fiber cables, Intel says Silicon Photonics Link is fast enough to transfer a high definition movie in one second.

The chipmaker says this project is separate from Light Peak, which is "an effort to bring a multi-protocol 10Gbps optical connection to Intel client platforms for nearer-term applications." Whereas Silicon Photonics research "aims to use silicon integration to bring dramatic cost reductions, reach tera-scale data rates, and bring optical communications to an even broader set of high-volume applications."

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[Lordbob75]

Looks awesome. I want to see this done in Hard Drives and flash drives now.

~Lordbob

 

[Win7User512]

Wow. Would love to have this technology in my hands now. Muahahahahahahaha

 

[Layback Bear]

Boy I'm glad I'm going to live a long time because I want to use silicon-based optical data connection technology.