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How does a 40 Gbit/s Ethernet interface process packets in silicon?

A 40 Gbit/s Ethernet interface should have a 40 GHz signal on it. How does common silicon IC technology handle such an exotic beast? My best guess is that internally various parallel busses are used, ...
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