Linking Chips With Light

Researchers integrated 70 million transistors and 850 optical components into a silicon processor using standard chipmaking tricks

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Linking Chips With Light
Lighting The Path: Engineers integrated 850 photonic components with silicon transistors.
Photo: Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado

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