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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: 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!