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Re: Photonic processors - Intel's in the game
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2010, 02:06:25 AM »
 :O

That's pretty crazy!
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Re: Photonic processors - Intel's in the game
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2010, 09:10:46 AM »
Man talk about a fast boot up cycle.
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Re: Photonic processors - Intel's in the game
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2010, 09:13:37 AM »
Sweet  :aok

Sun received a contract from DARPA about 2 years ago to research data transfer by photonic means instead of using copper like today, should be ready soonish  :)

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Re: Photonic processors - Intel's in the game
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2010, 11:24:03 AM »
Very cool, now it won't be long before my desktop computer has almost unlimited processing, memory and storage capacity.
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