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Интел разродился ( из журнала EDN EUROPE | SEPTEMBER 2010 ): "Intel’s 50-Gbps silicon-photonics link allows researchers to develop and test new technologies that transmit data over optical fibers, using light beams from low-cost silicon instead of costly and hard-to-make devices using exotic materials, such as gallium arsenide." То есть, в скором будущем большинство микросхем будут с двумя выводами - плюс и минус питание и несколькими отверстиями под оптоволокна. “This achievement of the....50-Gbps silicon-photonics link with integrated hybrid silicon lasers marks a significant achievement in our long-term vision of ‘siliconizing’ photonics and bringing high-bandwidth, lowcost optical communications in and around future PCs, servers, and consumer devices,” 50-Gbps - это только начало, "Company researchers are working to increase the data rate by scaling the modulator speed and increase the number of lasers per chip, providing a path to future terabit-per-second optical links".