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[...] 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)
(Score: 3, Disagree) by fyngyrz on Saturday March 31 2018, @01:16PM (4 children)
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @01:22PM (1 child)
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
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
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
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.