Intel Claim 40GBps Chips Are Close: Is This a Breakthrough?

Are these incredibly fast chips out of our reach? Or have Intel actually made a huge breakthrough and created these unbeleivably high-speed chips?

Instead of using electrons, the new, almost-made chips are to use light, which is much faster and efficient as optical interconnects also eliminate the heat created by resistance, which saves energy in the apsect of heat. This may be fine and dandy, but I am beginning to worry about the pricing which I predict will be outrageous.

Intel’s silicon-photonics technology will take a while to become commercial apparently, with another seven years to wait. I’m thinking in seven years time, they would have made 80GBps chips let alone 40GBps.

What do you think the future holds in terms of chips? Will Intel manage to make them in time before the likes of AMD and Hynix getting in the way?

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