
The Skeptics Guide #846 - Sep 25 2021
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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Is This a Proof of Concept?
An optical switch that operates up to one thousand times faster than the fastest commercial transitiors and possibly uses the theoretical minimum of required energy. This is not like a product you're goingto be buying next week. But they're using a potonic switch. It was able to ad in the laboratory. They were able to achieve one trillion operations per second, which is to is between a hundred and a thousand,. up to a thousand years faster than day's top notch commercial transistors. Whether or not this will happen on any kind of industrial scale that will be useful remains to be seen.
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