Intel Says Photonics Light the Way to Faster Chips

by John G. Spooner eWeek.com, 23 Jun 2005 Intel researchers are shedding some light on a potential new application for chip photonics: upping the performance of multicore processors. The processor giant's research labs are exploring ways to use silicon photonics to replace electrical interconnects using copper wiring and simultaneously speed up vital connections that move data into and out of processors. Read more