AN FRANCISCO--Pushing several steps farther in the multicore direction, Intel on Wednesday demonstrated a fully programmable 48-core processor it thinks will pave the way for massive data computers powerful enough to do more of what humans can. The 1.3-billion transistor processor, called Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) is successor generation to the 80-core "Polaris" processor that Intel's Tera-scale research project produced in Read full article »
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Light Peak optical link
Light Peak technology is an optical cabling that can transfer data between your computer and peripherals at 10 Gb/s, which sounds pretty fast for now. However, the more amazing thing is, the technology will eventually scale up to a blazing 100 Gb/s...! "Fiber optics typically use a cigarette-box-sized optical transceiver, which contains tiny lasers and photo cells, to facilitate the connections. Read full article »
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