Intel Corp (INTC)

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Intel developing optical chip-to-chip interconnects

The paper is from 2009 but that day is coming soon...

"The Intel paper describes a longer-term goal of creating a microprocessor with integrated on-die, single-mode silicon nitride optical waveguides, silicon nitride waveguide coupled metal-semiconductor-metal germanium detectors and electro-optical polymer based ring-resonator modulators."

http://www.eetimes.com/General/PrintView/4081370

and this is how.

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=56510622