Sun Unveils Direct chip-to-chip Interconnect 185
mfago writes "On Tuesday September 23, Sun researchers R. Drost, R. Hopkins and I. Sutherland will present the paper "Proximity Communication" at the CICC conference in San Jose. According to an article published in the NYTimes, this breakthrough may eventually allow chips arranged in a checkerboard pattern to communicate directly with each other at over a Terabit per second using arrays of capacitively coupled transmitters and recievers located on the chip edges. Perhaps the beginning of a solution to the lag between memory and interconnect speed versus cpu frequency?"
It will be running java (Score:5, Funny)
terrabit (Score:2, Funny)
I suppose this will be patented... (Score:3, Funny)
SUV of chip interconnects? (Score:4, Funny)
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster... (Score:2, Funny)
Bah, this is old! (Score:1, Funny)
(No kidding, there were people back then who told and believed this nonsense
This is not new. (Score:1, Funny)
You mean the problem that everyone outside the PC world already solved? Please people, for your own sake go learn about the alpha architecture. Where all the CPUs connect to other cpus via north, south, east and west. They can all communicate that way, even routing around failed cpus. Then you can start crying when you realize crapaq threw it away.
Re:It will be running java - The Best Comment ! (Score:2, Funny)