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Intel Says Breakthrough Could Lead To Powerful, Low-Cost Chips
San Francisco CA (AFP) Sep 18, 2006 Intel and university researchers announced Monday a breakthrough that could lead to a laser-producing chip that could vastly improve computing power at a low cost. Intel said the researchers for the company and the University of California at Santa Barbara developed a process that could allow the production of hybrid silicon-laser chips to use laser beams instead of wires to transfer data. "This breakthrough addresses one of the last major barriers to producing low-cost, high-bandwidth silicon photonics devices for use inside and around future computers and data centers," the company said in a statement. The use of photonics, or optical data transfer, could vastly increase the speed of computers while keeping costs down, the researchers said. Experts say the use of lasers could allow communication between chips within a system, bypassing many of the bottlenecks on existing computer chips. "This could bring low-cost, terabit-level optical 'data pipes' inside future computers and help make possible a new era of high-performance computing applications," said Mario Paniccia, director of Intel's Photonics Technology Lab. "While still far from becoming a commercial product, we believe dozens, maybe even hundreds of hybrid silicon lasers could be integrated with other silicon photonic components onto a single silicon chip." The researchers said the key to manufacturing the device is the use of a low-temperature oxygen plasma -- an electrically charged oxygen gas -- to create a thin oxide layer on the surfaces of the materials.
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JMAR Awarded Contract For X-Ray Mask And Nanolithography Program
San Diego (SPX) Aug 18, 2006JMAR Technologies has received a $3.1 million award by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). This is the latest increment to be added to JMAR's current contract, valued at $17.5 million, to continue development of sub-100nm feature x-ray masks and next generation nanolithography. |
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