Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The world's first silicon laser chip, announced today by Intel, could enable computers to be built with dramatic performance improvements because of internal optical data pipes replacing slow physical wires.
Researchers from Intel and the University of
California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) say the breakthrough addresses one of
the last major barriers to producing low-cost, high-bandwidth silicon
photonics devices for use inside and around future computers and data
centres.
“This could bring low-cost, terabit-level optical ‘data pipes’ inside
future computers and help make possible a new era of high-performance
computing applications," said Mario Paniccia, director of Intel’s
Photonics Technology Lab. "While still far from becoming a commercial
product, we believe dozens, maybe even hundreds of hybrid silicon
lasers could be integrated with other silicon photonic components onto
a single silicon chip.”
A laser based on silicon could drive wider use of photonics in
computers because the cost can be greatly reduced by using high-volume
silicon manufacturing techniques.
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