Oh those clever Israeli’s:
An Israeli start-up has developed a processor that uses optics instead of silicon, enabling it to compute at the speed of light, the company said.
The unit’s a bit bulky at the moment, but should be down to the size of a Palm Pilot in a few months, and hopefully to a single chip in five years.
It’s conceivable this technology could become mainstream inside chips in 10 years time.
If this pans out it would have quite an impact. Such a computer would be capable of 8 trillion operations per second (or 8 teraflops) which is about a thousand times faster than standard processors – essentially a super-computer on a single chip.
One can only ask how long it is before light speed is too slow . . .