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Sun Working to Eliminate Circuit Boards
lokedhs writes "Sun Microsystems is coming out with new chips without connectors. According to the article, this will have a lot of advantages: 'Performance, for instance, could greatly escalate because the speed of transferring data among chips and the number of channels for the transfers would increase. Energy consumption could also decline. Just as important, overall costs could fall, because defective chips could be removed like Scrabble tiles.' This technology will also lead to new CPU's without cache: 'The technique could also allow designers to remove the cache--the large pool of memory currently found on the processor--and put it on a separate chip. Caches were integrated onto processors to amplify bandwidth. Adding cache, however, bumps up manufacturing costs, as it greatly increases the number of transistors. With the bandwidth constraint gone, caches could once again be made independent without it having an impact on performance.'"
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Sun Corporation anounced today the release of new Pokesun collectible computer tiles!
Catch them, arrange them, build a super-computer! But you gotta collect them all!!
Didn't you just assume it was terrorism? Geez man, get with the times.
I don't know if this is related...but the links between stories after you choose an article are gone, forcing me to have to go back to the homepage to get to the next article. I had a couple ideas. Did they not do some hardware upgrades not long ago? If so, maybe they are forcing stress testing on them to see whats wrong? Or maybe they sold out and are going for front page hits circa 1999. I always noticed in the subsections you could not traverse articles and always had to go back to the main page, maybe thats why. Anyway, /. /.'ing itself seems like cybersuicide.