Sun Unveils Direct chip-to-chip Interconnect

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?"

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It will be running java

[holzp]

therefore the speeed increase will be unnoticable.

terrabit

[lanswitch]

Does "terrabit" mean that it will be made of pieces of the earth?

I suppose this will be patented...

[Thinkit3]

Or maybe Rambus is already fixing to sue them.

SUV of chip interconnects?

[Atomizer]

Whatever, I think this will end up being the SUV of chip to chip conections. ;)

Imagine a Beowulf Cluster...

[tekiegreg]

of these, well that's kind of the point actually :-)

Bah, this is old!

[ecki]

Anybody remember the viruses which could travel from floppy to floppy back in the C64 days? You would put an infected floppy next to a clean floppy, and the virus would just hop over! Don't know about the speed though...

(No kidding, there were people back then who told and believed this nonsense ;)

This is not new.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Perhaps the beginning of a solution to the lag between memory and interconnect speed versus cpu frequency?"

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 !

[SlashingComments]

Great ! I am so happy to see that there are some real programmers exist who see the truth. I have seen our Sun E3500 with 8 CPUs felt like a pentium pro with java shit running on it. But it was management's vision ... what we can do. I just procured the servers and pretended that I am doing social work by giving Sun more money.