News - Intel takes the next step in Silicon Photonics

[HEXUS]

Creates first end-to-end connection and claims terabit links could be just three-to-five years away.

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[borandi]

If Intel's ambition of a Terabit link does come to fruition, you could be backing up your entire PC in under a second.

Only if SSDs increase exponentially in speed over the next ten years too.

[cameronlite]

I reckon SSDs will have changed significantly by then - if they haven't been replaced by positronic brains...

[badass]

I wonder what type of fibre it'll need. Using FDM at such high speeds makes me think it'll be Single mode and so mean the connectors will have to be very, very well engineered or there'll be problems everytime you move something.

[kalniel]

I wonder what type of fibre it'll need. Using FDM at such high speeds makes me think it'll be Single mode and so mean the connectors will have to be very, very well engineered or there'll be problems everytime you move something.

I think they're demonstrating this as an internal connect at the moment - ie it'd be fixed in place as part of the motherboard. As it is they're already much more flexible than PCB lanes

[Steve]

I think they're demonstrating this as an internal connect at the moment - ie it'd be fixed in place as part of the motherboard. As it is they're already much more flexible than PCB lanes

Ah c'mon, real engineers use wire-wrap, not PCB

[Jay]

what kind of drive array would you need to be ablr to read / write that kind of data?