News

HP makes futuristic discovery – Photons rather than electrons are used to process data

July 1, 2005 /

MATR Sponsor (view all)

The MDT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program encourages and supports the participation of companies owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals in transportation contracts.

Hewlett-Packard scientists have conducted breakthrough research in the use of light particles in computing that they say could someday help engineers build faster and more secure networks.

The findings of HP scientists in Bristol, England, are part of a growing field called optical quantum computing, in which photons — the basic components of light — instead of electrons are used to process information.

The technology is "still several decades away" from becoming reality, HP said.

Benjamin Pimentel, Chronicle Staff Writer

Full Story: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/01/BUG4GDHFA31.DTL