May 20, 2015

Cassette with hundreds of IBM Silicon Photonic Chips with an American coin to compare their size (Image courtesy IBM. All rights reserved)

A few days ago, IBM announced that it has produced for the first time a fully integrated silicon photonic chips. This is the prototype of a transceiver to be used in data centers to get transmissions up to 100 Gb/s. The aim is to increase the transfer speed of large volumes of data in cloud and Big Data applications, those which require an exchange of information very high and require specific technologies.