IBM Optical Chip Moves Data At 1Tbps 127
snydeq writes "IBM researchers have developed a prototype optical chip that can transfer data at 1Tbps, the equivalent of downloading 500 high-definition movies, using light pulses, the company said Thursday. The chip, called Holey Optochip, is a parallel optical transceiver consisting of both a transmitter and a receiver, and is designed to handle the large amount of data created and transmitted over corporate and consumer networks as a result of new applications and services. It is expected to power future supercomputer and data center applications, an area where IBM already uses optical technology."
User judgecorp links to more coverage, writing "The record was achieved because 24 holes in the chip allow direct access to lasers connected to the chip."
Re:Measuring in HD movies? (Score:5, Informative)
Pssst. 1/500 of 1Tb/s is 2Gb/s not 2Mb/s. I think they are saying you can download 500 movies in 1 second, not the equivilent of streaming continually at 1Tb/s. 1Tb/s just blows my mind.
Re:1 Tbps (Score:4, Informative)
As of March 2012 it's about 0.00037 LoCs/sec
here's the press release (Score:5, Informative)
The linked article sucks. Here it is straight from the horse's mouth.
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/37095.wss [ibm.com]
Re:What kind of kick-ass compression? (Score:4, Informative)
You know, the phrase actually makes sense with the context (that was never given in the movie)
quote: [wikia.com]
The Kessel Run was an 18-parsec route used by smugglers to move glitterstim spice from Kessel to an area south of the Si'Klaata Cluster without getting caught by the Imperial ships that were guarding the movement of spice from Kessel's mines.
It took travelers in real space around The Maw leading them to an uninhabitable—but far easier to navigate—area of space called The Pit, which was an asteroid cluster encased in a nebula arm making sensors as well as pilots go virtually blind. Thus there was a high chance that pilots, weary from the long flight through real space, would crash into an asteroid.
So, the idea is that he took a rather large shortcut - "By moving closer to the black holes, Solo managed to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs."
Re:alignment (Score:4, Informative)