Light powered chips are poised to replace current chips , But Why?

Since it’s inception in 1965 the Moore’s Law held totally correct even upto now(probably) , but with passing time it has become extremely difficult to keep on to Moore’s Law. Because of several reasons scientists and researchers are facing difficulty in sticking to the Moore’s Law. Talking about the problems Heat dissipation and Speed are the two most Serious ones .

Let me Talk about them One by One 🪜. 

1. Heat Issue 🔥: According to Moore’s Law , the number of transistor on the same surface area will double in every two years. Sounds too interesting right , But with more number of Transistors comes more current and with more current comes more Heat , that is you are gonna have approximately 20 to 80 % increase in heat generated on the same die . Why i didn’t say 100 % , there is a reason to that as the number of transistors are increasing , the cooling techniques are also advancing. So one of the main problem that we can clearly see is the Heat issue.
2. Speed Issue ⚡: As we are moving ahead in time one of the fundamental desire that is fueling the whole semiconductor industry is the desire to have more and more speed that is faster chipsets and for faster speeds we want to move our data faster and in current chips who are transferring the data , Obviously Electrons and there is a limit at which we can speed up electrons , we need ramp up technologies for that and we can’ have those advanced technologies on such a smaller chipset. Even if we suppose that we are able to speed them up then then how will we be able to handle such heat.

So , we saw the major problems that we are having to face with current day chips. And now we are perfectly ready to see how these photonic chips or light powered chips are poised to replace current chips.

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