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posted by mrpg on Saturday March 31 2018, @11:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the faster-chips-slower-programs dept.

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

[...] Optic communications encompass all technologies that use light and transmit through fiber optic cables, such as the internet, email, text messages, phone calls, the cloud and data centers, among others. Optic communications are super fast but in microchips they become unreliable and difficult to replicate in large quanitites.

Now, by using a Metal-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon (MONOS) structure, Levy and his team have come up with a new integrated circuit that uses flash memory technology -- the kind used in flash drives and discs-on-key -- in microchips. If successful, this technology will enable standard 8-16 gigahertz computers to run 100 times faster and will bring all optic devices closer to the holy grail of communications: the terahertz chip.

Source: Smaller and faster: The terahertz computer chip is now within reach

Non-Volatile Silicon Photonics Using Nanoscale Flash Memory Technology (DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201700190) (DX)


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  • (Score: 3, Disagree) by fyngyrz on Saturday March 31 2018, @01:16PM (4 children)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Saturday March 31 2018, @01:16PM (#660823) Journal

    So I ask myself: what is the most memorable aspect of flash memory, after the fact that it is... memory?

    Why, the fact that it wears out with use.

    This, they want to make processors from.

    Isn't that... interesting.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @01:22PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @01:22PM (#660827)

    That is bases for for all marketing....
    1) Get them hooked
    2) Resale, Resale, Resale

    Give away the razor, and sell the blades!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:46PM (#661155)

      Give away the razor, and sell the blades!

      Or a parallel from electronic technology: Give away the DRM-encumbered printer, sell the DRM-encumbered cartridges!

  • (Score: 2) by seeprime on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:01PM

    by seeprime (5580) on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:01PM (#660839)

    I don't think this is likely to happen. It looks like another reach for grant money. Maybe they'll learn something useful anyway, in spite of choosing mortal flash memory.

  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:10PM

    by looorg (578) on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:10PM (#660844)

    hardware planned obsolescence. Yay! A fast world with new shiny stuff that breaks down conveniently after time and just in time for the next product launch.