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Israeli Processor Computes at Speed of Light
« on: October 29, 2003, 02:14:37 PM »
"HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli start-up has developed a processor that uses optics instead of silicon, enabling it to compute at the speed of light..."

Optical CPU processing a reality.  Read more on Reuters.

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Re: Optical CPUs Arrive
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2003, 03:47:51 PM »
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I assume you mean Reuters? :-)


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Re: Optical CPUs Arrive
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2003, 03:49:58 PM »
Yes the device is rather large but is does almost 150000000000000000000000000 Willy Flops*


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Re: Israeli Processor Computes at Speed of Light
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2003, 08:12:11 PM »
If the CPU is as good as they say, then why could it not run a 68K, PPC and x86 JIT emulator all at the same time ;-)
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