The best discoveries, they say, are those that are stumbled upon by accident. We say the best discoveries are the ones that sound like something Batman and Robin would say – IBM’s Holey Optochip is just such an innovation.
The new chip is capable of transferring a terabyte of information (500 HD films) a second, all thanks to a couple of holes. IBM's scientists decided to drill 48 micro holes in a standard quarter-inch silicon CMOS chip, making it 8 times faster than today’s parallel optical components.
That means it’s not only fast, thanks to optical networking, but power efficient (it uses only 5 watts per transceiver) and cheap too since it’s made from components already available.
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