IBM Introduces Silicon Photonic Technology

International Business Machines Corporation has demonstrated its latest achievement in the field of silicon photonic technology.

International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation has demonstrated its latest achievement in the field of silicon photonic technology. IBM news informed that the company has introduced a new chip, which is equipped to speed up the process of information transferring, as it would employ light pulses.

The experts of the company have successfully launched a fully integrated wavelength multiplexed silicon photonics chip. Experts stated their view that the new technology would download at a speed of 100 gigabytes per second. IBM news today reported that the new chip offers greater bandwidth.

The senior vice president and director of IBM research, Arvind Krishna, has stated that the commercial use of the newly developed high-tech feature would ensure that the processor industry is able to satisfy the growing demands of the computing industry. He added that this innovation would not only help users capture insights from information but also efficiently use energy.

Company sources have affirmed that the success-driven feature of the product is its capability to employ electricity and light side by side on a chip, underwriting each other. IBM breaking news informed that it uses four different colors of light, which help avoid congestion of conventional networks.

Furthermore, it is capable of downloading an estimated 63,000,000 tweets, 6,000,000 images, or a full high definition movie, in two seconds. The corporation’s engineers in United States of America and Switzerland have developed a design, which uses four colors to cover a distance of 2 kilometers. Each color is capable of supporting a 25-gigabyte per second data stream.

Industry sources have highlighted that the company is currently targeting its new technical system at information center and HPC settings, where bandwidth creates problems. Experts speculated that if the corporation can successfully pioneer nanophotonic devices capable of operating at a speed of 800 gigabyte per second and significantly reduce energy consumption from the movement of photonics then it could progress rapidly in the competitive field of technology. 

One of the most impressive aspects of the new product is that it has been invented using the 90nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor process. It is probable that a large number of users would be attracted towards the new devices, as they serve better than their copper rivals do. The company’s new development is capable of revolutionizing the world of data transfer. This is not the first chip-related innovation of the organization, as it has previously developed quantum-computing chips for appeasing its customers.