While still some years from viability in a production environment, optical chip-to-chip interconnect technology was recently demonstrated by a team from the Intel Components Research Lab in a fully functioning prototype device that attained an aggregate bandwidth of more than 8 giga-transfers per second.

DeviceForge has published a whitepaper that describes the state of the technology in general, the architecture, and basic design of the Intel prototype device, and the implications of its development. The whitepaper is by the Director of Advanced Circuit and Technology Integration within Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group.

Read Intel whitepaper

 
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