Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Mar 2008 16:33 UTC, submitted by irbis
As computers chip continue to decrease in fabrication size, manufacturers such as AMD and Intel are researching new ways to overcome physical barriers. Die size, performance, operating frequency and heat are all major obstacles in the semiconductor industry. Sun Microsystems announced that in partnership with Luxtera, Kotura and Stanford University, it is working on an ambitions project to move data transmissions from electrical signals over copper wires to pulses of light using lasers.
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2006-10-08
As far as I know, x86 based processors were beaten by MIPS processors (usually built into fine SGI machines) regarding iteration speed which is important for scientific applicances. In most cases when x86 industry came up with something "new", "fast" or "revolutionary", I could laugh: "Hmmm well, we do have this in non-x86 world for years already." So I welcome everything that beats x86 in any regards. :-)