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some true forward thinking from Intel. I believe that eventually most interchip and board interconnects will become optical fiber based. There is no doubt about that. As soon as the clock speed increases, the parallel metalic lines need very high manufacturing quality to be able to transfer all bits within the same clock cycle. That's the reason that people started using serial lines in the first place. Metalic serial lines will quickly become place limits on the clock frequency.

Unlike the copper lines that suffer signal attenuation and have noise problems, optical fiber can in essence offer TB/sec BW and the attenuation is much less acute than their copper counterparts. They are immune to noise too.

Light in the fiber has lower propagation velocity than electrical current on metalic conductors. It is the above mentioned advantages that make fiber a medium with tremendous BW. Not the propagation speed.

-m
Posted by: michael-t   Posted on: 02/27/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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