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Posted by Hemos on Monday October 28, 2002 @09:55AM from the move-that-data-faster dept.

h4mm3r writes "STMicroelectronics plans to announce a breakthrough on Monday in light-emitting silicon that could lead to a new generation of more powerful computing processors and more efficient automobile components as well as potentially higher-speed optical data-transmission systems. (gotta register, free yadda yadda)"

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The coolest part of this story... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 28, 2002 @09:58AM (#4546865)

... is the new acronym for Light Emitting Silicon.

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Re:The coolest part of this story... (Score:5, Funny)

by Daath ( 225404 ) writes: <lp AT coder DOT dk> on Monday October 28, 2002 @10:01AM (#4546885) Homepage Journal

LIght Emitting Silicon? - LIES
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Light emitting silicion is easy. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 28, 2002 @10:06AM (#4546941)

120V 20A will make almost any chip glow!

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Light Emitting Silicon?! (Score:5, Funny)

by Zack ( 44 ) writes: on Monday October 28, 2002 @10:11AM (#4546981) Journal

Great! Now strippers can do their own light shows! (Okay, it's silicon vs silicone, but shhhhh, it's funnier that way)

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I can see it already... (Score:5, Funny)

by zozzi ( 576178 ) writes: on Monday October 28, 2002 @10:14AM (#4547003)

"No Sir I wasn't staring at her breasts, I was just attracted by the light coming out of her shirt"
"Case dismissed!"

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Glow? (Score:5, Funny)

by e8johan ( 605347 ) writes: on Monday October 28, 2002 @10:17AM (#4547032) Homepage Journal

Does this mean that part of the heat from the CPU will be light in the future? No more "monitor glow", more like "computer glow"... perhaps if different parts had different colours, e.g. floating point = green, integer = blue, cachemiss = red. Then you would know what part of your code to optimize without running a profiler: "It's all green and f**king slow, make your inner loops fixed point, dumbass!" :)

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new math (Score:4, Funny)

by the_pooh_experience ( 596177 ) writes: on Monday October 28, 2002 @10:41AM (#4547246)

"...researchers have succeeded in increasing the efficiency of light- emitting silicon 100-fold..."
well now, let us see.. 100 times ZERO. Maybe that "new math" [dbooth.net] we all learned can help us with this.

Please forgive this post, I am a bitter III/V (read GaAs et al) guy

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Re:Saab (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 28, 2002 @10:48AM (#4547309)

Yeah, fiber optic also makes it easier to shield against emp attacks. Mmmmm. Hardened car. (I'm posting this anonymously so I can come back and mod myself down for OT)

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Re:I can see it already... (Score:2, Funny)

by machine of god ( 569301 ) writes: on Monday October 28, 2002 @10:50AM (#4547334)

what are you, a moth?

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Re:Very challenging to do (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 28, 2002 @10:59AM (#4547417)

light-emitting semiconductors such as GaAs

When I have GaAs, my emissions would not be considered "light".

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What, shining fake tits?? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 28, 2002 @11:36AM (#4547750)

Ok, should read the story first...

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