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Something up? 50K at the bid of $1.80 a bit ago and now volume spikes and the price is jumping. Now news that I see.
There is a huge portion of the stockpile that is no longer there. They've been processing heavily to move that much ore. Fantastic, just plain fantatic.
Thanks for posting Zap's photos JT, you are the tech man!
Zapito1, very nice work, the photos are terrific!!!
The photo's of the conveyor moving ore is the southwest belt that takes ore into the processing building. It is the one we've been waiting for. This is the most compelling case yet that PCFG is processing ores and producing gold. Thank you very much for sharing with the board and giving a much needed lift to moral.
Yuppers, Palin, kardashian and Paul McCarthy a host of others have had phones hacked and private info stolen.
Nice find Jbob, articles like that are what will cause BSGC's share price to explode upward.
It's a state issue. Virtually every state in the U.S. could have a company that used the name Pacific Gold. However, when it comes to ticker symbols, that's a national issue and there is only one PCFG.
Didn't mean to jump on you but we've got some posters that will conveniently twist the truth.
Happy Birthday!
That Pacific Gold was: "We were incorporated on July 16, 2009, under the laws of the state of Wyoming. Our principal offices are located at 109 W. 17 th Street, Cheyenne, WY 82001."
Wrong entity. Nice try though.
Gold's up? PCFG must be pumping it. LMAO
Where are the pumps you say are coming from the company? They simply said they had a Twitter account and they weren't sure how they would use it. How is that pumping, it's simply informing shareholders of preparations to possibly provide more communication via a social network.
Yesterday, you said the whole thing was a scam, today, they're pumping. Unbelievable!
Doh! The Most Disastrous E-Mail Mistakes.....
and Bigstring could correct virtually every one of these embarrassments!
Want some light entertainment? Check out our readers' true tales of e-mail faux pas, and find out how to prevent them from happening to you.
Robert Luhn
What's in an e-mail? Potential disaster, that's what. With the click of a mouse, you can accidentally broadcast that torrid note to 200 coworkers, forward a catty message about your boss to your boss, or send several thousand customer credit card numbers to, um, the journalist writing this story.
There are probably 8 million similar stories in the Naked Internet. PC World invited readers to share their most embarrassing moments (or somebody else's). Gathered here are ten tales of e-mail gone awry that will make you think twice before clicking Send. In fact, after reading these cringeworthy confessions, you may want to toss your PC and go back to carrier pigeons. Or clay tablets.
The following stories show just how mortifying (and funny) errant e-mail can be. For obvious reasons, the names of the individuals involved have been omitted. But believe me, I'm not making these up.
Death of a Salesman
"A very successful salesman at our networking company had a large e-mail address book filled with his best customers, including some very important and conservative government contacts. With a single click, he accidentally sent a file chock-full of his favorite pornographic cartoons and jokes to everyone on his special customer list. His subject line: 'Special deals for my best customers!' Needless to say, he's cutting deals for another company these days."
Slip Into Something Comfortable
"An editor at my magazine was discussing with an office pal via e-mail what to wear for her big romantic date with the new boyfriend. Unfortunately, she inadvertently copied everyone in the office about her dilemma. She got fashion advice ('Wear the silk teddy with the explosive bolts!') for weeks afterward."
Big Brother Is Reading
"Two jobs are better than one--if you can work on the second job while at the first. That's what my former boss, an event planner for a nonprofit, did to pad her already fat salary. She blithely organized a seminar for job number two using the e-mail system at job number one. To cover her absences from job number one, she invented a serious illness for her saintly mother, who just happened to be at death's door the day the seminar took place. Our heroine, however, never made it to her mom's bedside--her boss checked the e-mail server and read a few random messages. Our plucky heroine is now pulling down unemployment."
Secrets From the Spreadsheet
"A helpful HR person at my company sent an employee phone extension list to everyone at our company. But the spreadsheet had hidden columns that were easily unhidden to reveal everyone's pay, bonuses, and stock options--including senior management's. Luckily, she had a new job lined up."
The Deadly Reply All Button (Part One)
"The insurance company I work for maintains an internal mailing list devoted to one of our customers. One day, one of our sales reps sent an e-mail to everyone in my group asking about a policy we were selling. I replied that we could easily convince the customer to buy it--even though the customer didn't need it. Unfortunately, I clicked Reply All. Hiding in that massive list was the customer's e-mail address. We didn't make the sale."
The Deadly Reply All Button (Part Two)
"A woman was in torment over a busted romance. She wrote a lengthy, detailed message to a girlfriend, adding that her ex-boyfriend preferred men to women. But instead of hitting Reply to a previous message from her girlfriend, she hit Reply All. Her screed was sent to dozens of people she didn't even know (including me), plus the aforementioned ex and his new boyfriend. As if that weren't bad enough, she did this two more times in quick succession! I finally wrote to her and told her about her addressing problem."
Third Time's a Charm
"I received an e-mail from an assistant at a competing consulting firm, CC'd to the firm's entire e-mail address book. What a piece of luck. Now I know who all of their employees, associates, and many of their clients are. Attached was a proposal to one of their clients, so even better: Now I know how much they charge. Several hours later, I received another e-mail from the assistant, again CC'd to everyone, with a revised proposal. The next day, I received a third e-mail from the assistant: 'Please ignore the previous e-mails.'"
Happy Trails
"A troublesome employee in my department sent me an e-mail saying he wouldn't make it in to work because of a sudden death in the family. He said that he would be flying out to the East Coast for a few days. He'd been less than honest with me in the past, so he attached an airline itinerary as proof. Except the itinerary showed his destination to be Hawaii! When he came back, I innocently asked, 'How was Hawaii?' 'Wonderful,' came the reply, followed by 'Oh $#@%@$%!' He very quickly found a new job and left the company."
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
"I've been using e-mail since the days of MCI Mail. I've suffered through flaky service, flame wars, e-mail rants from customers, and yes, stupid e-mails I never should have sent. But I never expected e-mail to pierce my heart.
"I met her at a company picnic, we traded stories about our repressed childhoods, and we soon became a couple. On a Sunday six months later, I proposed and she accepted. On a Thursday four days later, she broke up with me--via e-mail. She sat four cubicles down the hall from me.
"I now insist that women reject me in person. It saves Internet bandwidth."
Do you want to avoid becoming one of the embarrassing stories in the Naked Internet? Check out "Seven Rules for Gaffe-Free E-Mails."
Seven Rules for Gaffe-Free E-Mails
E-mail is like a digital postcard--anyone can read it. Of course, that doesn't mean you have to send that postcard to everyone on the planet. But with instant communication can come instant e-gaffes. One wrong click can drop your career or your reputation into the dumpster. Follow these rules to save yourself from embarrassment.
Rule 1: Always check the To field before you click Send.
Rule 2: Always check the To field before you click Send.
Rule 3: Always check the To field before you click Send.
Rule 4: Remember the carpenter's rule, "Measure twice, cut once," and think twice before sending once. In other words, put that message aside and let your temper (or lust) cool before you send it.
Rule 5: Use draft folders with caution. No matter what e-mail program you use, it can be easy to send an e-mail in progress by accident. Save that hot-and-heavy note on a floppy--and lock it in a vault.
Rule 6: Old news can become bad news. Find your inner Yoda (or inner editor) and pause before you write something that could come back to haunt you later. In short, avoid future embarrassment by not writing anything even remotely off color or off the cuff. When in doubt, hit the Cancel key instead of Send--and remove anything potentially mortifying. Remember, too, that deleting sent e-mails on your system is only half the story; they could be sitting out there on some server, just waiting for a subpoena. (Remember the ancient e-mails exhumed for Microsoft's antitrust trial?)
Rule 7: Don't make jokes or comments via e-mail that you wouldn't make in person. "E-mail can be a minefield of unintended insults," says Judy Heim, communications maven and longtime PC World writer. "I've stopped wisecracking in e-mail. It's too easy for comments to be misconstrued."
Congressman Anthony Weiner, (chuckle), would have paid tens of thousands $$$$$$$$$$$ to have known about this technology last year.
Ahhh the embarrassment and job it could have saved.
Richard Nixon is looking down from somewhere and lamenting not having this during Watergate. Every government stooge in the world wants this product.
The greatest market age for this is high school IMO. Every kid trying to get their parents off their back would love to have a sanitized communication stream. Get a couple of apps sent to several high schools and the products use will explode.
Very nasty cough, gonna take some strong medicine to clear it up. Grin.
The integrity of the U.S. markets, rock solid, cough cough.
IMO a couple of MM's swapping 2000 shares below the bid in a lame effort to create selling panic.
Here's the Website for SIBE's new marketing partner, the Partnership. Also, they have listed their clients page, pretty impressive.
http://thepartnership.com/
http://thepartnership.com/LeftBrain/clients.html
What you state is sad but true, someone will always try to distort the facts: "there's always posters who try to put a negative spin on positive developments for PCFG"
Thank goodness there are multiple witnesses in this instance to verify that the Twitter info and address is indeed real and from PCFG.
Exactly the same experience with me. I emailed PCFG, they emailed back and used the info@pacificgoldcorp address. I really don't care what some posters "think", I care about facts. The facts say its legit.
I emailed PCFG several weeks ago and received and email back with the Twitter address account, it's real PCFG whether you believe it or not.
Getting social
While effective use of social media in the areas of investor relations and shareholder communications is still being explored, the SEC has stated that these tools can be used alongside other, more traditional methods of disclosing information. Companies like eBay use Twitter to disclose quarterly earnings; last year Johnson & Johnson tweeted minutes from its annual meeting.
Perhaps issuers adopting notice and access could use social media sites to announce their decision and alert shareholders to expect the notice. By using corporate website postings and social media, issuers can begin engaging shareholders way ahead of the annual meeting. Raising the shareholders’ awareness throughout the year may mean they will pay more attention when the proxy package or notice of annual meeting arrives.
And why do proxy mailings have to be so boring? It’s no wonder shareholders don’t pay much attention to the annual proxy package – it usually arrives looking like a piece of junk mail. Proxy mailings are expensive, so why not design them for maximum advantage by branding the cards and envelopes and inserting a letter from the chairman expressing the value of shareholder participation? Placing a message on the outer envelope emphasizing that the package is critical is another effective way to catch shareholders’ attention.
All issuers are required to make their documents available electronically. This can become a very valuable area for exposing the issuer’s message and branding to both registered and beneficial shareholders. Ensuring documents are more accessible and easier to search and navigate sends a message that you want the shareholder engaged. Some sites post video messages from the chairman and/or senior managers; others use video annual reports. It’s a proven fact that people remember what they see better than what they hear or read, so a video annual or other video message is a powerful forum for engaging shareholders.
Annual meetings are another way to keep investors engaged. Unfortunately, so much emphasis is placed on minimizing disruptions from activists that many meetings are not very welcoming to investors. Electronic shareholder meetings may be a good option – while there are concerns about whether this format is truly interactive and whether votes that are captured during the meeting can be validated, the technology will continue to evolve and many issuers will likely adopt at least a hybrid approach (a combination of some interactive components and a live meeting).
Shareholders can also be engaged via surveys, which can be completed online or on paper, with their results reported to the board. Last year one very innovative company enclosed a survey regarding say on pay in its proxy statement, providing a way for the shareholder to communicate directly with the company. If the shareholder wanted to have a dialogue with the company, he or she simply needed to check a box and provide the best way to contact him or her via telephone or email. Inviting shareholders into an open dialogue like this sends a strong message.
The bottom line is that issuers today have a wider range of tools for communicating with shareholders than they have ever had before. The more of these tools an issuer chooses to employ, the more engaged its shareholders will become.
http://www.corporatesecretary.com/articles/shareholder-communications/11216/engaging-shareholder-communications/
PCFG Twitter page, a gathering place for shareholders intent on receiving the most updated information on activities and milestones.
It'll be interesting to see how the site evolves foxwoods and how interactive they allow it to become. It certainly points toward more exposure and information becoming available for longs. I also like the fact that they've emailed multiple shareholders to announce the site.
A toast to a successful 2012!
After reading PCFG's Twitter page, its very obvious that they are obsessed with the price of gold. The majority of Tweets are directed at the current or the projected future pricing of gold. The Tweets aren't focused on equipment, setup, calibration or weather, just the price of gold. I wonder why.
http://twitter.com/#!/PacificGoldCorp
Any CPA's on the board? I know that NOL's for tax write-offs typically must stay with and be used by the original company. However, if certain conditions are met, they can be transferred to a purchasing firm. Can anyone here give some clarity as to what those conditions would be?
Nice reminder 2ndELDESTone, here's an old post regarding the writeoff:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65988048
You don't know much about Management, this isn't their only business. LOL
Just got an email from Mitch, looks like they've started a Twitter account and will be attempting to communicate from that medium:
"Just letting you know we did start a Twitter account @PacificGoldCorp, still figuring out how we will use it and what we can say but it is there if you are a Twitter person."
The setup of a second processing plant with the intricate knowledge of what they had to do to accomplish the feat would be much faster and more efficient. They also have relationships with all the necessary State departments to expedite the process. It'll be interesting for sure.
It'll be interesting to see what they decide to do with Fernley. Build a second processing plant on site or truck ore to NRG for processing. I think it's almost 200 miles exactly from Olinghouse to the Crescent Valley plant. We should find out this year what the plans will be.
It's all quiet on PCFG management's end. This is the longest period we've gone without a PR since the June 17 to September 7th drought in 2010. I do know this, they are processing ore at the plant in spite of what the noise here keeps telling us. I have no clue what the results will be but it'll get interesting fairly soon IMO. Hope you are right that it is a good reason.
Best of luck to you!
Completely agree with your thoughts that we'll get a PR detailing the plants overall performance, how the twin sand screws are doing in reducing sand that formerly fed into the geo-tubes and how they are operating. We'll get feedback on how much gold has recently been recovered gold before we get the quarterly. We're overdue for an update IMO.
Report: DEMAND FOR GOLD IS UP in 2011
Posted: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:45 pm
ELKO - Global demand for gold rose in 2011 to the highest value yet and to the highest tonnage since 1997, according to the World Gold Council. Demand was at 4,067 metric tons in 2011, worth an estimated $105.5 billion. The council said in its new Demand Trends that this was the first time global demand exceeded $200 billion.
Demand was up along with gold prices. A record gold price of $1,895 per ounce was set on the London p.m. fix on Sept. 5-6, 2011.
The investment sector was the key reason for the increase in demand, with investment demand up 5 percent to 1,641 metric tons from the 2010 record. India, China and Europe led the demand, according to the report released last week.
Central banks also continued the trend established in 2010 of being net buyers of gold. Purchases by central banks soared from 77 metric tons to 439.7 metric tons.
"What we can see from these 2011 figures is that there were two main factors driving the results: Asian growth and optimism on the one hand and western desire to protect assets against uncertainty on the other," said Marcus Grubb, managing director of investment for the World Gold Council.
"Looking particularly at Asia, there was a major boost to the overall figures from the increase in Chinese demand, which is a trend that we see continuing over the next year. It is likely that China will emerge as the largest gold market in the world for the first time in 2012," he said in last week's announcement on release of the Demand Trends.
"What is certain is that the long-term fundamentals for gold remain strong, with a diverse and growing demand base, coupled with constrained supply side activity," Grubb said.
China and India remain the cultural centers of gold, generating 55 percent of global jewelry demand and 49 percent of global demand, according to the report.
India remains the largest country for demand with 933.4 metric tons, which the report states is notable considering the volatility of the gold price and the weakness of the Indian rupee against the U.S. dollar during the second half of the year.
Gold jewelry accounted for more than 500 metric tons in India, the World Gold Council reported.
In China, annual demand of 769.8 metric tons was up 20 percent year-on-year as a result of increases in both jewelry and investment. The largest rise was in investment, where demand of 258.9 metric tons.
There was also a surge in demand in Europe with the region posting its seventh consecutive annual gain to 374.8 metric tons, according to the report. Germany and Switzerland were the main drivers of growth in the region as the eurozone remains in turmoil and the need for asset protection continues to be a priority, according to the report.
The World Gold Council also reported that fourth-quarter investment shows a significant increase of inflow into gold exchange-traded funds to 86.8 metric tons, compared with just 22.3 metric tons in the fourth quarter of 2010.
The annual comparison is much weaker, however, as inflows of 154 metric tons for 2011 are significantly lower than 367.7 metric tons for 2010, which was an exceptional year for ETFs.
The council also reported demand for gold bars and coins continues to be robust and was another major contributor of the increase in investment demand. Gold bar and coin demand rose 24 percent to 1,486.7 metric tons.
Read more: http://elkodaily.com/mining/report-gold-demand-up-in/article_474749e0-5da7-11e1-92b6-001871e3ce6c.html#ixzz1nFNNOWX4
.0159's almost gone. Still looks like it did earlier today, ready for a run.
We continue to work our way through some shortsighted sellers. Once they're gone, blastoff!
Yeh, that was probably them unloading that enormous 800 shares at the bid.
This looks like it could run right now. Solid bid at .0145 was just overtaken by a .0146 bid, only 18k on the ask and sitting at the end of a long in channel three month consolidation. CMF, Chaikin Money Flow rising, MACD flat and RSI in the 40's and poised.
Edit: In addition, gold is also making a move as are other gold miners!
It appears that more high end intellectual talent in the photonics realm is coalescing at the University of Delaware. Michael Hochberg has moved from the University of Washington to UD. Here's the article:
http://optics.org/indepth/3/2/4
Silicon photonics forges ahead
22 Feb 2012
Key figures from the world of silicon photonics update optics.org on the latest progress in this perennially hot topic.
It is widely believed within the photonics community that achieving successful and economically viable silicon-based photonics will give multiple benefits in performance, power consumption, and – perhaps above all – economical, electronic semiconductor-style manufacture.
But what about the persistent limiting factors, such as cost of R&D and production; overcoming manufacturing challenges; and establishing the market need. Indeed, is it a given that silicon photonics will easily displace existing alternative semiconductor-based technologies?
optics.org has interviewed some key players in the field of silicon photonics to build up a picture of what is happening in this long-researched and gradually evolving “hot” area, from the laboratory through to the commercialization of devices. Here we highlight some of the key achievements and challenges to progress.
Michael Hochberg
A notable figure in the silicon photonics community is Professor Michael Hochberg, a founder of Luxtera who recently established the OpSIS - Optoelectronic Systems Integration in Silicon, which is a foundry service that provides developers with access to optoelectronic integrated circuits at a modest cost.
Up until a few weeks before Photonics West 2012, Hochberg was professor at the University of Washington but he has decamped to the University of Delaware to push Opsis forward. He told optics.org, “OpSIS is basically an attempt to make the very advanced processes around silicon photonics accessible to the wider community.”
The need for this accessibility arises from the prohibitively high cost of developing silicon-based modulators, detectors and waveguides. Hochberg says, “It is simply not cost practical for any R&D group or start-up who is not very well funded to go to a company such as Luxtera and pay them to run development trials.” In contrast, the electronics and semiconductor industries solved this problem by virtue of having what they call “shuttle runs” – shared wafers, with many projects all running together.
“What we are trying to do is get a fabless model for the photonics industry - specifically silicon photonics. We have three foundries that we are already working with including Luxtera, BAE Systems, and with IME in Singapore.
"With IME and BAE we are co-developing a process, while with Luxtera they’re giving us a commercially mature process out of the gate. The first run is oversubscribed, I’m pleased to say. We have more people who want to join this than we have capacity for which means we’ll do the next one quite soon.”
”We have proven in test runs that we can produce modulators and detectors up to 25Gbit/s at IME and we have actually some of the world’s lowest voltage electro-optical modulators in that process operating at these high speeds where we can drive tem at less than 1V and we can push digital data through them.”
Hochberg is confident that this approach will enable would-be photonics chip developers to put in modest amounts of money – “tens of thousands or even thousands of dollars to be able to participate” – and be able to get their chips in return.
He adds, “Optics designers will be able to stop worrying about the device physics and start thinking about the architecture and I think that is hugely exciting transition, where – just like in the transistor world 40 years ago – it became possible to be an electronic chip designer without having to worry about how the transistors themselves work. If we can we can drive that transition, which is what OpSIS is really trying to achieve.”
Silicon photonics economy
Hochberg believes that we are already well into the age of the silicon photonics economy: “There’s at least a dozen big semiconductor companies or well-funded start-ups that I’m aware of who are now making and selling silicon photonics components, or who are on the path to doing just that. You can also see this development in recruitment of PhDs; people who can integrate and design these things are incredibly in demand at the moment.”
Luxtera, which yesterday announced the shipping of its millionth silicon CMOS photonics-enabled 10G channel, and Kotura are two examples of companies already selling silicon photonics products. Luxtera, of which Hochberg was a co-founder (but of which he is no longer an employee) is already selling product in volume and going head to head against VCSEL-based solutions for optically-active cables.
Hochberg is convinced that the photonics development sector needs to follow the lead of the electronics industry. “One of the things that the electronics world has figured out is that only the very highest volume products really justify developing a custom CMOS process. That’s Intel’s core business; they are always a generation ahead of everyone else in terms of process and they have done an amazing job at that for a long time.”
”If we, as the photonics industry, are going to be successful on the same scale as the electronics industry we must replicate the fabless ecosystem. It must be possible to train an undergraduate to design photonics circuits. If you want to crystallize what our goal is as Opsis into one sentence then that’s what we want to achieve.”
Silicon chip: Luxtera's optical device.
Luxtera opens silicon CMOS photonics to OpSIS
In January, just as Photonics West was opening its doors in San Francisco to the photonics masses, Luxtera announced that it had opened its silicon CMOS photonics process and CMOS Photonics device library to OpSIS.
Luxtera says its silicon CMOS process is the only commercially deployed process to integrate photonics with transistor-based electronics, which makes this announcement significant, as it offers a unique level of capability and complexity as well as a direct path to commercial production.
Under the new agreement, Luxtera’s silicon CMOS photonics device library and process is now open to the OpSIS community, which shares the cost of fabricating complex chip-scale systems across many projects.
At the time of this announcement, Hochberg responded, “We are thrilled to be able to offer our community access to Luxtera’s process. It provides the opportunity to leverage the significant investment and maturation of the world’s first production proven CMOS Photonics design flow."
Peter De Dobbelaere, Luxtera’s VP of engineering, agreed with Hochberg that there is today a significant silicon photonics marketplace, “and it is growing rapidly. The absolute market potential far exceeds the existing optical interconnect market size, and I believe it is well in excess of $10 billion.”
He added that there are few, if any, technical barriers to progress. Industries’ reliance on outdated standards and technologies, such as VCSEL and MMF solutions, represent the sole impediment to even more rapid proliferation. ”Luxtera has shipped over one million integrated silicon photonics modulators and over four million integrated silicon photonics photo-detectors. We have no immediate plans to introduce integrated light sources, as there are greater system level benefits in keeping them external,” he said.
”Silicon photonics is no costlier than any advanced CMOS process. Recently foundry and multi-project wafer runs have become available through organizations like OpSIS. Multi-project wafer runs allow dramatic reduction of silicon photonics product development costs.”
Intel
Mario Paniccia, Intel Fellow and Director Photonics Technology Lab at Intel.
optics.org also interviewed Mario Paniccia, Intel Fellow and Director Photonics Technology Lab at Intel, which has been a leading player in the integration of electronic and photonic technologies on silicon.
optics.org: What are the most significant achievements in silicon photonics, so far?
Mario Paniccia: From the technical perspective, firstly I think we at Intel and other researchers around the world have proven that we can build optical devices out of silicon. Many of these individual devices are operating at 40Gbit/s or higher. With these devices or “building blocks” now proven we now have the ability to integrate them together.
Integration and scaling are the real value of silicon photonics as in the IC industry. In mid-2010, we publicly introduced the first integrated 50Gbit/s silicon photonics link, which was based on integrating hybrid silicon lasers combined with modulators and a multiplexer that was packaged with PC-like assembly and manufacturing techniques. This is the first step in showing the capability of scaling integrated silicon photonics for low cost high bandwidth connections in and around the PC and server.
By integrating more components together and increasing the line rate that you drive the photonics one can then have bandwidth capability that can go from 25Gbit/s to more than 1 Tbit/s. This is powerful as those varying data rates based on a common architecture allow one to target different market segments. From these data rates one can see what the impact is to the user to move information in and around the PC and server.
Intel’s silicon photonics roadmap.
Is there already a significant silicon photonics marketplace?
We believe bringing optics in and around the PC and server will not only bring many benefits such as improved thermal cooling and performance we also believe it will lead to new form factors, thinner systems and could revolutionize future system architectures. In addition the ability to move massive amounts of information around quickly will be needed to connect future devices and more importantly all the information, photos, data and video that is and continues to be generated worldwide.
What is the state of progress to wards a silicon laser, modulator or photo-detector?
The progress of all of these has moved very well over the past five to seven years. At Intel, we now have devices in our lab that run in excess of 40Gbit/s and we have demonstrated an integrated hybrid laser with a transmitter operating at 50Gbit/s (4 wavelengths at 12.5Gbit/s). We continue to focus on improving both performance and the level of integration going forward as well as the packaging and high volume manufacturing techniques needed to take this to the mass market.
Other silicon photonics news
Kotura, an established innovator in silicon photonics focused on its application to communications, is pushing the importance of US government initiatives for optoelectronics at a one-day industry-centric workshop at OFC/NFOEC 2012 in Los Angeles on March 5 2012. Sponsored by the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, the workshop will bring together key industry and government players. Key decision makers from both the government and private sector will be speaking, including from Kotura itself.
Kotura’s silicon-based technology platform integrates a broad range of optical and optoelectronic functionality to provide innovative ASIC solutions for applications ranging from communications to high speed Ethernet LANs, high performance computing, as well as optics-based sensing and detection.
“With the escalating end-user demand for bandwidth coupled with pricing pressures, the industry needs new ideas and new technologies,” said Mehdi Asghari, CTO of Kotura, who will be speaking at the workshop at OFC/NFOEC. Other speakers will include representatives from such organizations as DARPA, NIST, Finisar, Infinera, and Carnegie Mellon University.
At the end of January, Silicon Line, Munich, Germany, a fabless analog IC company designing physical layer technologies for low power high-speed optical links, launched its SL82728 and SL82718 chips targeted at notebooks, ultrabooks and tablets based on the VESA-based Embedded DisplayPort standard. These chips are used to optically connect the graphics processor to the display and enable the replacement of traditional electrical connectors with optical connectors.
“The latest generation of retina-type displays demand extremely high data rates”, said Ian Jackson, Senior Manager Sales & Marketing. “For example, a 10in tablet display with 500 pixels per inch can require up to 23 Gbit/s and when used in 3D mode would require twice that bandwidth. Optical transport of these signals solves the EMI problem, which these data rates create as well as enabling the small and thin form factor designs specified for ultrabooks.”
Nice buy's congrats. Seems very odd that other Jr's with lower reserves of gold and less stable political environments are priced above PCFG. It just proves that the market is indeed fickle.