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Sun Unveils Direct chip-to-chip Interconnect

Posted by Hemos on from the faster-then-a-speeding-bus dept.

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?"

7 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. Zhava? Sun Sucks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    SUN CR1PPLED GN0ME!
    SUN PI1SED ON THE L1NUX COMMUN1TY!
    SUN == M1CROSOFT OF UN1X!
    M0D D0WN 1F Y0U AGREE, M0D UP IF Y0U DISAGREE.

  2. Terrabit Terrabit Terrabit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ooops, a typo :)

    Terrabit Terrabit Terrabit
    Terrabit Terrabit Terrabit
    Terrabit Terrabit Terrabit

    (Stupid fag filters)

  3. Re:Hmm by eudaemon · · Score: -1, Troll

    Au contraire --

    This is exactly the technology push they need to squelch all the
    "SUN's CPUs stink" crowd.
    (Assuming they can make it work, of course.)

    I'll bet dollars to doughnuts it never runs Linux, either.

    You'll only see two people with this tech: SUN and IBM.

    SUN because they invented it and IBM because they'll patent every variation they can think
    of on this idea by next Tuesday,
    thus forcing SUN into a cross-licensing deal.

  4. Pictures of the technology. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This techology has been discussed for decades, but it has only been economicly feasable for a few years now. Here are some diagrams of how it works

    http://www.books-rose.com/v_12/

  5. Burning Slashdotter Questions by teamhasnoi · · Score: 0, Troll
    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?

  6. Sun: Linux? What's that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    listen all you ASS KISSERS, pull your COCK out of Linus' ass long enough to take note: Where the fuck is my daily SCO fix?

  7. Surveillance? by mmol_6453 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

    --
    What's this Submit thingy do?