{"id":150620,"date":"2022-11-21T02:22:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/electronic-photonic-chip-sandwich-pushes-boundaries-of-computing-and-data-transmission-efficiency"},"modified":"2022-11-21T02:22:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:22:24","slug":"electronic-photonic-chip-sandwich-pushes-boundaries-of-computing-and-data-transmission-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/electronic-photonic-chip-sandwich-pushes-boundaries-of-computing-and-data-transmission-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Electronic\/photonic chip sandwich pushes boundaries of computing and data transmission efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electronic-photonic-chip-sandwich-pushes-boundaries-of-computing-and-data-transmission-efficiency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at Caltech and the University of Southampton in England have collaboratively designed an electronics chip integrated with a photonics chip (which uses light to transfer data)\u2014creating a cohesive final product capable of transmitting information at ultrahigh speed while generating minimal heat.<\/p>\n<p>Though the two\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chip\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chip<\/a> sandwich is unlikely to find its way into your laptop, the new design could influence the future of data centers that manage very high volumes of data communication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time you are on a video call, stream a movie, or play an online video game, you\u2019re routing data back and forth through a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/data+center\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">data center<\/a> to be processed,\u201d says Caltech graduate student Arian Hashemi Talkhooncheh, lead author of a paper describing the two-chip innovation that was published in the <i>IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits<\/i> on November 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at Caltech and the University of Southampton in England have collaboratively designed an electronics chip integrated with a photonics chip (which uses light to transfer data)\u2014creating a cohesive final product capable of transmitting information at ultrahigh speed while generating minimal heat. Though the two\u2013chip sandwich is unlikely to find its way into your laptop, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}