Joshua

Intel researchers will announce today a major breakthrough in chip
design that will make it possible to inexpensively create
ultra-high-speed fiber optic telecommunications equipment that can
send data over long distances. The breakthrough will revolutionize
Internet-based communication, the company says, by bringing the PC
industry's low-cost model to telecommunications. The results of
Intel's work should be widespread within a decade, according to a
paper that will be published today in "Nature."
"Before there were two worlds--computing and communications," Alan
Huang, a former Bell Labs physicist, told "The New York Times." "Now
they will be the same, and we will have powerful computers
everywhere." Researchers familiar with Intel's breakthrough are
excited about the possibilities, which should enable completely new PC
designs that don't delineate between the local physical machine and
remote computing resources. Because we'll eventually be able to
shuttle data over a network nearly as fast as we send data within a
single PC, a completely new generation of PC services and applications
will be possible. "Think of it as either bringing us a tenfold
decrease in costs of existing communications or 10 times the bandwidth
for the same cost," Intel President and Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Paul S. Otellini said. "It is yet another step in the path to
convergence we have been discussing for the past few years."
The Intel breakthrough involves a silicon chip that can send data
through light beams at speeds more than 50 times faster than today's
fastest communications technologies and should result in low-cost
computer networks that use light waves to move data seamlessly between
chips, computers, and networking devices around the world. Excited
researchers note that the breakthrough will likely shift
communications technology to the Moore's Law cost curve, an
often-misquoted chip pricing-and-performance prediction that Intel
Cofounder Gordon Moore first cited. Under Moore's Law, chip
performance doubles every 2 years (or 18 months, depending on who you
ask) while prices continue to fall.
If Intel's projections hold true, within the decade we'll be able
to buy 10GHz networking switches that cost just $5 to $10. Today, such
switches cost $1000 to $2000.

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Burzhui

time to buy stock

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bachviet

I already own some Intel stocks but I am still not breaking even yet.

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Joshua

I'm pretty psyched about this news. I can imagine the day that you just take your pc and plug it into the wall and automatically have ATM speed for the same price as a phone line! NICE!