The on-chip optical interconnect work that we are funding today should be available to corporate users in about eight years. It will take a little longer to get it into defense systems. |
We are migrating optical data networking deeper and deeper into the hardware itself. Optical components inside systems provide higher data speeds and no cross talk. ... The box gets faster and smaller. |
When [technologies] go into the commercial world, that improves the yield, uniformity, and reliability of parts. And the costs go down. |