Intel unveils new technology for data transmission over the rays of light

Intel announced recently achieved significant progress in its quest to use beams of light to transmit data instead of using electrons in computers.


The company has developed a prototype of the study is the first of its kind in the world, which depends on the transfer of data scanned by laser technology combined.. The new technology allows data transfer speeds and longer distances to double what is used in copper cables today, and data transfer speeds of up to 50 Gigabit per second, which is equivalent to the possibility of transferring the entire movie with high accuracy in one second.
And related computer components today with each other by cables copper or through the paths of copper on the board of electronic circuits, and this lead to a weak signal in data transmission over the metal, and that these cable lengths specified, and this consequently limits of the design computers, and forced the designers to develop computer components Kalmalj and Memory at specific locations close to each other, but the current research directed towards the substitution of such communications fiber optic light and extremely thin can transfer more data to distances much longer and lead to a radical change in the design of computers and change the engineering and design data centers in the future.

Will have silicon technology optical applications in the computing industry, for example, with these high rates of data transfer you can imagine display three-dimensional size of the wall, and the possibility of video conferencing with very high accuracy, so you can interact with others like you in the same room, The components of future data centers will be spread throughout the building and connect with each other at high speeds rather than somehow squeeze in one place by copper cables with limited capacity to communicate.

The model of silicon optical link at 50 Gb / s the outcome of research has continued for years in the field of silicon optical model consists of a transmitter and receiver chip.

Consists of the chip from the sender of four emitters of the laser, each carrying a packet data transfer rate of 12.5 Gb / s, are then combined to generate a single package of the optical fiber at 50 Gb / s, on the opposite end there-receiving chip is thanks to the beams of light four draws each of them to circuit detection you convert the data back to electrical signals, and is a compilation of chips with the technology of low-cost, familiar in the semiconductor industry, and works Intel researchers to increase the speed of data transfer through the expansion rates of speed, as well as increase the number of lasers on the chip , so that future speeds up to 1 terabit / sec is a very high rate sufficient to transfer a complete copy of the contents of a laptop computer in one second.









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