This new system uses on-chip photonic devices, using light to directly communicate with other chips. Integrating electronics and photonics at the scale of a microprocessor chip requires the ...

Consider for a moment that light in a vacuum travels ... Having multiple pipelines in a processor makes the design a superscalar architecture, and again (since the late 90s), most modern ...

creating the microprocessor industry. A family tree of the 8008 and some related processors. Black arrows indicate backwards compatibility. Light arrows indicate significant architecture changes.

More information: Ankur Garg et al, The structural landscape of Microprocessor-mediated processing of pri-let-7 miRNAs, Molecular Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.09.008 ...

Moreover, VISC uses a light-weight "virtual software ... Mohammad Abdallah will present the VISC™ architecture overview today at the Linley Processor Conference in Santa Clara.