Crude future vision of 300-GHz optical micro-processor units

Evolution in energy efficiency of many-core parallel micro-processors through year 2025 looks unclear nowadays, because the clock speed of new electronic cores has stopped to evolve. With reviewing on-going applications-research activities in semiconductor optoelectronics, instead, the author estimates what possibilities the potentially 100-times-faster serialprocessing micro-processors (e.g. 300-Gb/s) consisting of all-optically-controlled gates and memories will contribute, to the information communication technology (ICT).

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