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[BOOTY MONSTER]

Holy Holey Optochip! IBM hits a terabit of info per second | Geek Gestalt - CNET News

" ...... IBM said this evening that its scientists have developed a computer chip that can move a trillion bits of information a second.
Known as the "Holey Optochip," the prototype optical chipset can transfer the equivalent of 500 high-definition movies a second, or the entire U.S. Library of Congress Web archive in an hour, ............ "

 

[ONAWHIM]

Move over Watson, real AI is coming our way!

 

[gamegetter]

Holy Holey Optochip! IBM hits a terabit of info per second | Geek Gestalt - CNET News

" ...... IBM said this evening that its scientists have developed a computer chip that can move a trillion bits of information a second.
Known as the "Holey Optochip," the prototype optical chipset can transfer the equivalent of 500 high-definition movies a second, or the entire U.S. Library of Congress Web archive in an hour, ............ "

i was amazed when they came out with a server that could store that much data...but moving that much data with a quarter inch chip is totally mind boggling.

 

[Mudfoot]

Man...

I remember logging on to Compuserve and Prodigy to download a 25 kb desktop icon. Took a few minutes to download and was long distance call to boot.

 

[gamegetter]

lol-remember

when computers actally filled rooms? and programs had to be key punched on to cards, then each set of data would also be key punched, inserted inwith the cards and run....printouts on wide format papers(forget what that paper was actually called)...are we technologically advanced or getting old?

 

[ONAWHIM]

....printouts on wide format papers(forget what that paper was actually called)...are we technologically advanced or getting old?

Tractor feed printer or print paper?



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