More than Moore's law ??? Scaling with silicon photonics

Rapid growth of intelligent mobile devices and internet of things demand instantaneous and ubiquitous access to large amount of data stored in remote data centers. This growth drives the need of very large capacity processors to store, switch and route vast amount of data. With the electronics industry embracing the 'More-than-Moore' concept to increase the integration level of the data processors, future generations of CMOS technology must not only scale transistor dimensions, but also need to embrace various heterogeneous integration technologies with new processing architectures. The emerging silicon photonics technology, which is compatible with the main stream CMOS manufacturing processes, promises significant enhancement in processing speed and capacity. In this talk, we will review the current status of the silicon photonics technology and new capability it would enable.