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Terabit bus?

2018-05-26

Categories: inven-sys  
Tags: inven-sys   pentax-k-1-camera  

Terabit bus? Is it possible? Yes it is, but currently only via fiber optic systems. Well, anyways, my hope is that smaller electronics will be able to scale up to bus speeds that fast. Intuitively the gigahertz clock speeds of modern semiconductors would limit the bus speed of serial communications to gigabit speeds. In any case, we need a way around that limit that we have approached too soon already, if we want to be able to keep increasing the speed and resolution of our camera systems.

20180525/DuckDuckGo terabit bus
20180525/https://www.linux.com/news/fdio-breaking-terabit-barrier
20180525/https://fd.io/2017/07/fd-io-breaking-the-terabit-barrier/
20180525/https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/192929-255tbps-worlds-fastest-network-could-carry-all-the-internet-traffic-single-fiber

And don’t worry, 16K resolution is coming here too. Pundits are also touting 16K resolution at 240 Hz being supported in newer GPUs.

20180525/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16K_resolution

For now, we’ll be stuck in the “slow lane” with camera technology. Well, most of us. Only those willing to pay 10 times as much to get a fast camera system today will have one that is 10 times as fast. And I mean, come on! You only get 10 times more speed for 10 times the price? That can’t seriously be worth it! At least not from an economic standpoint. An exponential growth curve would assume 100 times the speed for 10 times the price.