Current Event

      This week the current event is that objects can bring optical connection onto silicon chips. Silicon chips is a tiny wafer of silicon used to make an integrated circuit or another way to call it is a micro-chips. The MIT News Office explains that the huge increases in computing show in recent years has been accomplished by tightening in more transistors in crowded space on micro-chips. The effect of this was that this downsizing meant packing the wiring within microprocessors even more together. Leading into things like signal leaking between components which slows down connection between different parts of the chips. It is known as "interconnect bottleneck". The researchers are trying to figure out material or things that is compatible or able to work with silicon. In order to bring out "optoelectronics and optical communication" on-chip, but it is said that its difficult to prove it by Jarillo-Herrero.