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?"

Comments

It will be running java

[holzp]

therefore the speeed increase will be unnoticable.

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. ;)