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Single-chip microprocessor that communicates directly using light
- Sun, Chen;
- Wade, Mark T;
- Lee, Yunsup;
- Orcutt, Jason S;
- Alloatti, Luca;
- Georgas, Michael S;
- Waterman, Andrew S;
- Shainline, Jeffrey M;
- Avizienis, Rimas R;
- Lin, Sen;
- Moss, Benjamin R;
- Kumar, Rajesh;
- Pavanello, Fabio;
- Atabaki, Amir H;
- Cook, Henry M;
- Ou, Albert J;
- Leu, Jonathan C;
- Chen, Yu-Hsin;
- Asanović, Krste;
- Ram, Rajeev J;
- Popović, Miloš A;
- Stojanović, Vladimir M
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16454Abstract
An electronic–photonic microprocessor chip manufactured using a conventional microelectronics foundry process is demonstrated; the chip contains 70 million transistors and 850 photonic components and directly uses light to communicate to other chips.
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