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It's curtains for you, copper: IBM boffins push the LIGHT FANTASTIC

IBM last month claimed a breakthrough in photonics – the practice of using light pulses rather than electrons to quickly send signals in chips.

Big Blue claimed its boffins had successfully designed and tested a fully integrated wavelength multiplexed silicon photonics chip which would be capable of turning out 100Gbps optical transceivers.

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theregister.co.uk
ZoyosJD3236d ago

I'm thinking copper in modern electronics is at the end of its days.

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Some of Google’s biggest rivals are taking its side in a Supreme Court battle

After nearly a decade, Oracle’s copyright lawsuit against Google is close to settling an important question: can you own the basic commands of a coding language

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theverge.com
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A smartwatch packed with folding screens is a great idea for living in a future of stupid tech

IBM has a patent out there for a smartwatch packed with a bunch of folding screens, because the future is dumb as heck.

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knowtechie.com
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The creation of the electronic brain

DCD reports on the epic decades-long quest to make computers more like the human brain. Early efforts brought us the deep learning revolution, neuromorphic computing could bring us so much more

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datacenterdynamics.com