"OPTICS: Darpa deal funds optical interconnect research"
IBM Corp. will team with Agilent Technologies Inc. to pursue "terabit per second optical interconnect" technology for multiprocessing servers, under a four-year, $30 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). The goal is to build chip-sized modules that interconnect high-speed microprocessors at aggregated data rates of up to a Tbit/second.
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