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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Burning Slashdotter Questions

[teamhasnoi]

What effect will this have on the dip to chip ratio? Will this prevent breakage under load? Has anyone measured the performance benefits of salsa compared to sour cream and onion?

Most importantly, will I still need my ThinkGeek 'I am teh Chip Haxx0R' bib?

Surveillance?

[mmol_6453]

I'm concerned about new applications in surveillance.

While I'm sure remote gap-dropping is a long ways away, what if someone were able to place a sensing device on top of the gap between the chips? Who needs to decrypt someone's hard drive if they can just log memory transfers?

It's not like similar techniques aren't already in place. For example, I'm certain I heard about a case where someone put a keylogger on a mobster's computer. I know someone's used keyloggers at my college campus.