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Silicon chips lighten up

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Microprocessor communications have received a boost from the integration of electronics and photonics in silicon — a first step towards low power consumption and efficient computing systems. See Letter p.534

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Figure 1: Processor–memory communication using optical links between two chips.

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  1. Laurent Vivien is at the Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France.,

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  1. Vic Kley

    The basic idea of trans chip optical communication has been around for more then twenty five years.

    The authors have taken us somewhere but are incoherent about the paths and improvements they made. Still they likely deserve our thanks and support.

    The next steps necessary to create an important commercial advance seems not to be discussed at all.

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