EETimes has put a video on YouTube that shows short excerpts from the keynote given by HP Labs' Prith Banerjee at the recent DesignCon in California where he talks about the work being done there to use optical interconnect to take backplane speeds from 10 to 300GB/s and higher and drop their power consumption.
The video show Banerjee describing work on the backplane as well as 'microservers' developed for the lab's Project Moonshot that will ultimately communicate using lasers and MEMS beam-steering and switching components mounted on processor chips using 3D stacking techniques with through silicon vias.
"Power consumption is going to be huge: here is our solution to the world," claimed Banerjee.
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