Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards

perl_camel_jockey writes "Sun is developing a new technology that promises to increase computing power by eliminating the need for physical, soldered chip-to-chip connections on the motherboard. Called 'proximity communications', it portends the ability for chips to talk to one another wirelessly just by being next to each other. Potential applications in computer design abound. Apparently this is part of Sun's Hero program, recipient of a $50 million grant from DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems program to rejuvenate supercomputing in the US and regain the lead lost to Japan, in particular to NEC's Earth Simulator, ranked as the most powerful supercomputer in the world."

In other news..

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot Microsystems is working hard on a system to eliminate duplicate postings [slashdot.org]. They hope to have the system working by early 2008.

This is great news for my CPU

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I can get the CPU into a separate cooling unit from the rest of the system so that I can pay less for more cooling where I need it.

Groundhog day

[Anonymous Coward]

I think this has happened before...

uhm... i can see it now

[WegianWarrior]

Cost of all the chips and stuff that makes up an über-1337 computer - 1000$

Cost of fancy cabinet w/ window to artisticly put all your wireless chips in - 200$

The look on your face as your motehr fires up her old vacuum cleaner, blanketing the area with RF-noise - priceless.

Slashdot working

[sien]

To obsolete grammar!

Re:In other news..

[popeyethesailor]

Nope. This post shows the subject in a new color!

Re:In other news..

[Tablizer]

Motherdupes about motherboards. Mama Mia. What bunch of motherf........nevermind. Me chill.

I see it now... ;-)

[Henk Poley]

Honey, I'll warm you something in the microwave!

Noooo...

[Beep] rebooting... grmbl...

Great opportunity for Sun

[murr]

Sun should find this project rather easy going - their motherboards ARE already pretty obsolete anyway.

Sun Invents a new computer form factor

[Gabrill]

CIAB-X (Computer In A Bag-X). You can overclock the system by jumbling the chips to get more optimal chip layouts. All powered by microwave.

The downside is that kids can no longer tell the difference between their candy bags and your new UBER-1337 computers.

Re:Sun Invents a new computer form factor

[Metallic Matty]

The downside is that kids can no longer tell the difference between their candy bags and your new UBER-1337 computers.

I got a rock.

Re:Groundhog day

[silverz]

A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

Re:Wow...

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you mean Slashdot repeats itself.. yet again. Imagine that. Slashdot repeats itself.. yet again. Imagine that. Slashdot repeats itself.. yet again. Imagine that. Slashdot repeats itself.. yet again. Imagine that. Slashdot repeats itself.. yet again. Imagine that. Slashdot repeats itself.. yet again. Imagine that. Slashdot repeats itself.. yet again. Imagine that.

Re:uhm... i can see it now

[Anonymous Coward]

Dupe story...$1

Overused Mastercard joke....$10

Knowing that WegianWarrior still lives with his mom...priceless

Re:Groundhog day

[Anonymous Coward]

+1 Informative, Mr. Anderson.....Slashdot Readers consume all available bandwidth, and they move on, to another site...or something like that.

DRM Evasion?

[Vampyre_Dark]

I guess some people will cover their chips with little tinfoil hats so they don't broadcast to home?

Re:In other news..

[slashdevslashtty]

Early 2008 is a very optimistic goal. Professional analysis indicates "hackers" will surely have stolen the source code, forcing a rewrite and delaying it more than a year.

Consequences

[doktorstop]

Let me visualise this... you need the chips but you don't need them to be on a motherboard... how would a computer look? A plastic bag full of chips? you dig in, take the processor out and throw in a new one to upgrade? groovy

Be Positive...

[KrisHolland]

Now is our chance go steal the +5 insightful comments and karma-whore like there is no tommrow ;).

three time repost?

[bani]

i guess /. really, really, really wants to make sure everyone reads this story.

i'm still trying to figure out why though.

Re:Pride

[meringuoid]

Imagine what could happen if nobody dies anymore - we will probably all die in the next few decades

There's something not quite right here, but I can't put my finger on it...

Re:DUPE

[cachorro]

I wonder how much more Sun would need to pay to get this article posted a third time.

Re:In other news..

[danamania]

But do they run Linux? And what impact will this have on my privacy?

You no longer need to just settle for wardriving for network access, you can wardrive for CPU time as well.

Want to improve your dnetc scores? Easy done! just tune into your neighbour's computer, and get theirs to tune into those of their neighbour, and their neighbour beyond that... :)

Re:Sorry.

[tiled_rainbows]

I don't care if it's in the dictionary or not. "Obsolete" is not a verb, damnit.

The first time I read the headline I thought it meant something like "Sun is working with obsolete motherboards". What would be wrong with "Sun working to make motherboards obsolete"? Whoo, five more characters to read, but it's worth it.

Maybe it's because I'm English, I don't know, but I do know that when I am king I will de-obsolete public flogging for people who debase the language thus.

New tagline...

[pyrrhonist]

Sun Microsystems: The air between stuff is the computer.

In other news..

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot Microsystems is working hard on a system to eliminate duplicate postings [slashdot.org]. They hope to have the system working by early 2008.

Re:Sun Invents a new computer form factor

[orangesquid]

Hey, nice Beowulf cluster.