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Intel Makes Advance in Silicon-Based Lasers

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Intel's silicon photonics-based transmitter and receiver chips can operate at up to 12.5 gigabits per second for a single channel, or at four times that rate using four channels. Credit: Intel Corp.

The Wall Street Journal

July 28, 2010

New technology from Intel could lead to the development of computers that use light beams to move data. Intel says it has built a prototype communications device with four silicon-based lasers that each send data at 12.5 billion bits per second, or 50 gigabits total. 

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