Friday, April 16, 2004
Intel Israel has succeeded in developing electro- optical chipsets based on silicon wafers capable of converting electronic signals to optic signals within the chip that will enable communication to be conducted at the speed of light - some ten times faster than the present speed.
The development has the potential to revolutionise the world of computing and telecommunications.
The company has not yet completed planning the production of the new optical devices, but it is mulling employing its Kiryat Gat facility (southern Israel) for the purpose. The mass production of the electro-optical chipsets will cost the same as the electronic chips.
"This is the greatest R&D success. There is no need to build new factories - faster chips can be manufactured at lower cost, with the same production infrastructure used in existing facilities. We took a theoretical physical affect and, using existing infrastructure, moved it up to a level that was previously impossible to implement", Mr Amir Elstein, the co-CEO of Intel Israel and director of Intel's Jerusalem facility told Ha'aretz newspaper.
A company release explaining how the new technology works said, `Researchers split a beam of light into two separate beams as it passes through silicon, and then use a novel transistor-like device to hit one beam with an electric charge, inducing a 'phase shift
By: DocMemory
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