[ExI] Jupiter Brain rethink?

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Engineers demo first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications
By Sarah Yang | December 23, 2015

<http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/23/electronic-photonic-microprocessor-chip/>

Quotes:
Engineers have successfully married electrons and photons within a
single-chip microprocessor, a landmark development that opens the door
to ultrafast, low-power data crunching.

“This is a milestone. It’s the first processor that can use light to
communicate with the external world,” said Vladimir Stojanović, an
associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at
the University of California, Berkeley, who led the development of the
chip. “No other processor has the photonic I/O in the chip.”
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Photonic processing means less power consumption and faster communication.
The next step is to use photons instead of electrons to do the actual
calculating,

The big problem with Jupiter Brains is heat dissipation from the
processing. Using photons instead of electrons might solve most of
that problem.


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