why is silicon phonics important if you
had this capability to transmit 50 gig
per second between two devices you're
talking about transferring an HD movie
in less than a
second we've taken the benefits of
optical Communications the fact of
having lasers through fiber very far
very fast and combine that with the
benefits of silicon manufacturing
integration Moors law you have to
understand 10 years ago you know and
even to a few years ago when you started
saying well silicon is an optical
material that doesn't make any sense and
even when I started this team you know I
remember recruiting a few people um if
they if they tell you why they're on a
team honestly they'll tell you we didn't
think it would work it's not that we had
the world's best Optics experts I think
the combination of this is having a few
laser experts having a few Material
Science experts having a few circuit
experts it's like putting you know man
on the moon if you bring all the people
who spent the last 20 years trying to
get to the moon you won't get there
because they'll tell you all the reasons
why it won't
work I like to take beds so maybe walk
out here with a bed my parents are
immigrants from Italy you know my we
didn't have a lot of money my dad would
just was very adamant about having his
kids go to college my dream was to come
to Silicon Valley ever since I was a kid
I pulled over on the highway I 101 and I
got out of the car and I looked around
and I said holy cow I actually made it
to Silicon
Valley maybe it's a flaw that I have
that it's never good enough it's this
mountain to the next mountain and I
think people don't know what they're
capable of prior to 2001 or 2002 the
fastest modulation in Silicon was 20 MHz
we went public in 2003 with the first
nature paper the paper title was greater
than 1 GHz when we actually published
that paper it was 2 1/2 GHz a year later
we demonstrated 10 gbits per second a
year and a half later 2007 40 GBS per
second first hybrid silicon laser in
2006 in 2010 an integrated 50 GB per
second link with integrates lasers
modulators detectors we can do now 100
Gig we can do 200 gig you can imagine
doing a terabit per second in the next
couple years at a terabit per second
you're talking about transferring or
downloading a season of HD TV from one
device to another in less than a second
it's going to allow us to keep up with
Mo's law and allow us to move
information and constantly feed Mo's law
and our processors and so we won't be
limited anymore by the interconnect or
the
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connectivity we now have the
Legos right that now we can put these
photonic devices together on Silicon you
can't imagine 10 years from now but
hopefully people will come up with
things that we've never thought of of
when you integrate those things together
what are the new devices and
capabilities that will be enabled by
this fundamental technology
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