June 2001
Silicon Lasers
Faster chips require built-in optics.
By David Voss
Silicon microchips, the thumbnail-sized microprocessors that constitute the brains of a PC, are heading for a disaster created by their own remarkable success. As chips get faster, the electrons that carry messages through the tiny metal wires within the integrated circuit are having a hard time keeping up.
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