Intel "speed of light" chips tainted by blue crystal hue

A FEW MONTHS back we wrote about Bob Colwell, a now ex-chief architect at the Intel Corporation, who talked all sorts of good sense about all sorts of things, including the Itanium microprocessor, Centrino, blue crystals, and the glass ceilings that prevent some dreams from becoming reality.

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Now a man has taken the trouble to transcribe the Stanford talk, and to bung it on the Interweb, as you can see here.

Colwell talks about Pat Gelsinger saying that optical interconnects will allow the routing of signals at the speed of light.

As he says: "Speed of light man, I read that on the Internet. Did you read that? It cracked me up. Pat Gelsinger's quote. I just loved the quote. The quote said, with this new optical interconnect, we'll be able to route signals at the speed of light. What the hell have we been doing all this time? Must be a misquote."

Unfortunately, Bob, it's not a misquote. According to Pat "Kicking" Gelsinger, quoted in the Ha'Aretz newspaper yesterday, the technology will "move data around inside a computer at the speed of light". µ

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