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The Challenge of Creating Efficient and Compatible Light Sources with Silicon Chips
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While silicon chips are excellent in driving light source chips and modulating light intensity, efficiently creating light sources compatible with silicon chips for use in communication requires exotic methods that compromise its interface capability with transistors.

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Silicon is extremely difficult to make an efficient light source without doing things that will reduce its ability to work with transistors.
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Digital Computing
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Silicon is extremely difficult to make an efficient light source without doing things that will reduce its ability to work with transistors. The compound semiconductor light sources that would be ideal have difficulties being integrated with silicon, making digital computing usage of light challenging.

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The Challenge of Creating Efficient and Compatible Light Sources with Silicon Chips
Episode
#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
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Lex Fridman Podcast
The integration of light source chips with silicon chips using separate processes and foundries introduces architectural limitations to electronic device packaging.
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Light Sources and Silicon Chips Integration
Summary

The integration of light source chips with silicon chips using separate processes and foundries introduces architectural limitations to electronic device packaging.

Chapter
The Challenge of Creating Efficient and Compatible Light Sources with Silicon Chips
Episode
#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast