"We already have a functional link running in the lab, and we are aggressively moving to higher bandwidths, " said Mario Paniccia, director of Intel's Photonics Technology Lab.
"This was one of our little secrets that we didn't want to disclose, " says Robert Knighten, peer-to-peer evangelist with Intel's Enterprise Architecture Lab, which develops software for big systems.
Enric Herrero, a research scientist at Intel Labs in Barcelona, said the lab is working on finding new ways to use and manage many cores in mobile devices.