So the biggest question asked is why silicon photonics?? According to many individuals in the computer industry it seems as though the traditional sense of transferring data over copper wires is reaching its intended limit. With computers and businesses needed more data faster and more efficiently, here steps in silicon photonics which can provide this further boost to transmission speeds needed.
Because silicon photonics is based on optical transmission which is not so really new to the communications world. However, the bulkiness and costs associated with implementing these in everyday devices is not cost effective.
So this is where Intel and the convergence of multiple technologies (laser, silicon) have come together to make this possible, and bring down the cost of implementation.
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