The ability to manufacture photonic interconnect components -- modulators, detectors, waveguides, and filters -- on silicon substrates has finally been realized, and these optical interconnect ...

Frank Phelan, principal design engineer at Synergy Microsystems Inc. sorts through the rhetoric to shed light on next-generation computer interconnects. During the past few years, various technologies ...

For more than a decade, Ethernet has been the computer interconnect of choice. It is used to connect computer servers to client's applications or users. It is the backbone of the World Wide Web and it ...

IBM has become the first company to integrate electrical and optical components on the same chip, using a standard 90nm semiconductor process. These integrated, monolithic chips will allow for cheap ...

In 2015 -- now just over a year away -- the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), which is set out by the industry's top experts, predicts that the copper wiring that connects ...

Peripheral Component Interconnect, or PCI, is a connection system to allow add-in cards for your computer to interact with your microprocessor. The PCI cards get installed into PCI expansion slots ...

Researchers have demonstrated an architecture that can enable high fidelity and scalable communication between superconducting quantum processors. Their technique can generate and route photons, which ...