News Intel claims optical computing "milestone"

after doing some more research, they maybe using a silicon hybrid, or have found a way to get rid of the exotic elements.

 

Power is still needed so you would still have a power line running down the cable to power whatever device you plug in, now on the motherboard side of things this could be great for communications between hardware to speed that up and so forth, still not new but going in the right direction. Wish this was a committee designed project and not just Intel because you know Intel will be basties and not share and charge up the ass for people to use it. ~_~

 

replacing all copper elements in the motherboard for fibre optic connections would suitably speed things up!

 

Maybe this answers the Intel USB3 question?

 

Nice tech. Will be amazing what will be possible in 10 years time.

 

Good luck to them with this stuff. hope they advance it fast.

 

yeah. I imagine addon cards plugged into the motherboard via a optical link cable instead of the bulky PCI-e slot. then cases could more easily be designed with better cooling in mind. I know you can use PCI-e riser cards with flex ribbons today but that is still not as flexible as a thin optical link cable.

as for optical links on the motherboards itself Intel would have to develop some way to print optical fibers onto the PCB or gluing on fiber to the pcb somehow. Guess robots can handle everything these days.