Holy Crap

Now this is impressive.

IBM trash-talks all those other chipsters with its latest breakthrough, an optical transceiver chipset that can accomplish the technological equivalent of cramming a basketball through a garden hose. The trick here is moving data through fiber optic cables at 160GB per second; that’s eight times faster than today’s optical components can do.

That means titanic files that take awhile to download, even with broadband, can come down in a second.

And check out the size of the chip. Wow.

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