IBM’s “Holey Optochip” is the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits – one terabit – of information per second. That’s a whole lot of bits. As the company’s press release reports, “it would take just around an hour to transfer the entire U.S. Library of Congress web archive through the transceiver.”  

[Story via Matt Lopez]

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   “Holey Optochip!”

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