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  Israeli Processor Computes at Speed of Light
Time: 11:59 EST/16:59 GMT | News Source: Reuters | Posted By: Robert Stein

The company's prototype is fairly large and bulky but when Lenslet begins to supply the processor in a few months it will be shrunk to 15 x 15 cm with a height of 1.7 cm, roughly the size of a Palm Pilot. "In five years we plan to shrink it to a single chip," project manager Asaf Schlezinger said.

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#1 By IronCladLou (432 Posts) at 10/30/2003 12:30:22 PM
Does this mean that the G5 is no longer the fastest processor in the universe?!? How could that be? ;-)

#2 By baarod (436 Posts) at 10/30/2003 12:53:49 PM
Quick! Somebody put Lou back in the reality distortion field before he comes to! Don't worry Lou, the G5 IS the fastest processor ever concieved. But don't pay attention to any benchmarks or naysayers, Steve wouldn't lie to you! Just think different -- the way we want you to.

#3 By Mr.Humpty (299 Posts) at 10/30/2003 1:39:20 PM
If this is true... this could be the next "big break-through" in computers. If they can refine the technology to get this cheap enough for people to use it, computers as we know them will change dramatically. Intel should be scared, or have the checkbooks wide open to buy it :)

Also, does anybody think this will provide more longevity and less heat as compared to current chips?

#4 By gg (259 Posts) at 10/30/2003 4:21:20 PM
Right now this is just a DSP. Of course, this might be the basis for the next generation of processors, but we'll see ... right now it only has comms applications.

It may end up being a race between quantum computing and this technology, and maybe in the end they'll even end up merging.

#5 By gg (259 Posts) at 10/30/2003 4:22:43 PM
Right now this is just a DSP. Of course, this might be the basis for the next generation of processors, but we'll see ... right now it only has comms applications.

It may end up being a race between quantum computing and this technology, and maybe in the end they'll even end up merging.

#6 By IronCladLou (432 Posts) at 10/30/2003 5:55:44 PM
lol, Baarod

That's what happens when you get unplugged from the MACtrix

#7 By Dufresne (26 Posts) at 10/31/2003 2:54:23 AM
What do DSPs do? What are the differences between DSPs and "normal" CPUs?

#8 By CPUGuy (1772 Posts) at 10/31/2003 3:39:36 AM
gg: Quantum computing is still, quite literally, more than a lifetime away. At the same time, the optical processors will be viable within the not too distant future.

Besides the fact that quantum theory is based on the duality of light (it is both a particle and a wave).

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