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Author:  Satis [ Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:55 am ]
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This is cool..."researchers" funded by Intel have managed to generate lasers using a silicon chip.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/techn ... ref=slogin

Now it's only a matter of time before we can mount these on sharks and conquer the world.
Author:  Rinox [ Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:23 am ]
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lol @ sharks. You do know that Dr. Evil's father was a Belgian boulangier right? :P


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Dr. Evil: My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really.




Can you copy-paste the article tho? I don't wanna register to read the damn thing..
Author:  Satis [ Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:04 am ]
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errr...I didn't have to register, but ok.

[quote="NY Times"]
A Chip That Can Transfer Data Using Laser Light

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By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: September 18, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 — Researchers plan to announce on Monday that they have created a silicon-based chip that can produce laser beams. The advance will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data between chips, removing the most significant bottleneck in computer design.

As a result, chip makers may be able to put the high-speed data communications industry on the same curve of increased processing speed and diminishing costs — the phenomenon known as Moore’s law — that has driven the computer industry for the last four decades.

The development is a result of research at Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Commercializing the new technology may not happen before the end of the decade, but the prospect of being able to place hundreds or thousands of data-carrying light beams on standard industry chips is certain to shake up both the communications and computer industries.

Lasers are already used to transmit high volumes of computer data over longer distances — for example, between offices, cities and across oceans — using fiber optic cables. But in computer chips, data moves at great speed over the wires inside, then slows to a snail’s pace when it is sent chip-to-chip inside a computer.

With the barrier removed, computer designers will be able to rethink computers, packing chips more densely both in home systems and in giant data centers. Moreover, the laser-silicon chips — composed of a spider’s web of laser light in addition to metal wires — portend a vastly more powerful and less expensive national computing infrastructure. For a few dollars apiece, such chips could transmit data at 100 times the speed of laser-based communications equipment, called optical transceivers, that typically cost several thousand dollars.

Currently fiber optic networks are used to transmit data to individual neighborhoods in cities where the data is then distributed by slower conventional wire-based communications gear. The laser chips will make it possible to send avalanches of data to and from individual homes at far less cost.

They could also give rise to a new class of supercomputers that could share data internally at speeds not possible today.

The breakthrough was achieved by bonding a layer of light-emitting indium phosphide onto the surface of a standard silicon chip etched with special channels that act as light-wave guides. The resulting sandwich has the potential to create on a computer chip hundreds and possibly thousands of tiny, bright lasers that can be switched on and off billions of times a second.

“This is a field that has just begun exploding in the past 18 months,â€
Author:  Rinox [ Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:12 pm ]
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Lol, I had completely forgotten about that...even if I did see all the Austin Powers movies. I loved the way they portrayed the Dutch. :twisted:

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Nigel Powers: All right Goldmember. Don't play the laughing boy. There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.


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Goldmember: Dr. Evil, can I paint his yoo-hoo gold? It's kind of my thing, you know.
Dr. Evil: [comes over to Goldmember] How 'bout no, you crazy Dutch bastard?


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Goldmember: Dr. Evil, we still have the ultimate insurance policy. May I present to you, the very sexual, the very toite, Austin Power's fahza.
Dr. Evil: His what?
Number 2: His fahza, Dr. Evil.
Dr. Evil: His farger? What's a farger?
Goldmember: His fahza. You know, the fahza.
Dr. Evil: You know Goldmember, I don't speak freaky-deaky Dutch. Okay, perv boy?
Goldmember: Fahza, his dad, dad is fahza.
Dr. Evil: Oh, his dad. His *fa-ther*
Author:  Arathorn [ Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:00 pm ]
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Bravo Nederland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Author:  derf [ Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:06 am ]
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Lol, great film.
Author:  Satis [ Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:04 am ]
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gotta love a good chance to discuss the finer points of Austin Powers. I love how the evil empire owns Starbucks.
Author:  Rinox [ Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:38 pm ]
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And I love it that they wanted to call their Super Death Ray 'The Alan Parsons Project'. :lol:
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