After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
Gaaah, please stop advertising optical computers as the technology that will overcome Moore's law. It makes no effing sense.Wavelength of the light emitted by these devices: ~4000nmLatest generation commodity CPU transistor structure size: 7nmAdd to that that photons really don't like being trapped; you essentially need a delay line and optical amplifier to hold them indefinitely (that's essentially the core technology my whole PhD thesis centers around), it makes them a really impractical thing to store bits with. Things with a rest mass can be stored easily, though. Things like, say, electrons!