IBM Develops Optical Bus; "computer systems 100 times as fast"

Re:IBM Develops Optical Bus; "computer systems 100 times as ... by drtse4 on Friday September 10, 2010 @05:08AM (#1678297)

Another big plus will be the huge reduction in latency, it can't get lower than that. I'm wondering at how much they will be able to sell it, from what i've seen working in this field common opto-electrical transceivers are not usually cheap (but they will need a less complex/very low power design, so this could not be a problem).

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Re:IBM Develops Optical Bus; "computer systems 100 times as ... by Vivtek on Friday September 10, 2010 @10:29AM (#1678936)

And possibly economies of scale will kick in when the high-end mass market starts to transition.

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Re:IBM Develops Optical Bus; "computer systems 100 times as ... by adamtj on Friday September 10, 2010 @12:56PM (#1679402)

Is the bus the source of the latency problem? I always thought it was because DRAM is slow (capacitors and all...)

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