Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Light-speed silicon chip


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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 20:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Light-speed silicon chip

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The article appears to consist largely of original research and improper synthesis, if it isn't a hoax. The description of the IBM IC superficially follows that of the cited Popular Science article. However, the claim that the IBM IC is called the "light-speed silicon chip", and the claim that it will result in an EFLOPS-scale supercomputer by 2018, are invented. The following "How it works" section implies that it's elaborating on the IBM IC, but it's actually about something else. The cited Phys.org article doesn't support any of the claims made in that section, and is unrelated to that section's content.

Light-speed silicon chip had been merged into Optical interconnect. As a result of a recent discussion at Talk:Optical interconnect, the consensus was to restore Optical interconnect to a revision dated before light-speed silicon chip was merged into it. There isn't any content from Light-speed silicon chip to merge anywhere, and its technobabble title makes it an inappropriate redirect. 99Electrons (talk) 00:32, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 01:18, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 01:18, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete technobabble about vaporware from 10 years ago. This is also a duplicate topic of Photonic chip which has the same problems.  More recent sources suggest that it's now quantum photonic computing (press release), which I believe to be more bullshitware. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 00:17, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Randykitty (talk) 09:47, 25 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Looks unlikely and also appears to be a violation of WP:CRYSTAL. &#91;Username Needed&#93; 16:12, 25 January 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.