(Phys.org)—IBM announced today a major advance in the ability to use light   
   instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing.   
   The breakthrough technology – called "silicon nanophotonics" – allows the   
   integration of different    
   optical components side-by-side with electrical circuits on a single silicon   
   chip using, for the first time, sub-100nm semiconductor technology.    
      
   http://phys.org/news/2012-12-silicon-nanophotonics-transmit.html   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)