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SmooL
on Oct 20, 2021
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New Optical Switch Up to 1000x Faster Than Transis...
We already transmit data optically, that's what fiber optics is.
WithinReason
on Oct 20, 2021
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I'm talking about between chips and RAM of course because that's where the data/compute ratio is shrinking, not between Tokyo and New York.
adgjlsfhk1
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the hard part is that currently electrical to optical conversions take a fair amount of space which would make them hard to do on CPU. it might be practical for storage to ram though, which would be really cool.
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