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Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards
perl_camel_jockey writes "Sun is developing a new technology that promises to increase computing power by eliminating the need for physical, soldered chip-to-chip connections on the motherboard. Called 'proximity communications', it portends the ability for chips to talk to one another wirelessly just by being next to each other. Potential applications in computer design abound. Apparently this is part of Sun's Hero program, recipient of a $50 million grant from DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems program to rejuvenate supercomputing in the US and regain the lead lost to Japan, in particular to NEC's Earth Simulator, ranked as the most powerful supercomputer in the world."
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I think this has happened before...
Cost of all the chips and stuff that makes up an über-1337 computer - 1000$
Cost of fancy cabinet w/ window to artisticly put all your wireless chips in - 200$
The look on your face as your motehr fires up her old vacuum cleaner, blanketing the area with RF-noise - priceless.
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To obsolete grammar!
Honey, I'll warm you something in the microwave!
Noooo...
[Beep] rebooting... grmbl...
Sun should find this project rather easy going - their motherboards ARE already pretty obsolete anyway.
The downside is that kids can no longer tell the difference between their candy bags and your new UBER-1337 computers.
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Let me visualise this... you need the chips but you don't need them to be on a motherboard... how would a computer look? A plastic bag full of chips? you dig in, take the processor out and throw in a new one to upgrade? groovy
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I wonder how much more Sun would need to pay to get this article posted a third time.
I don't care if it's in the dictionary or not. "Obsolete" is not a verb, damnit.
The first time I read the headline I thought it meant something like "Sun is working with obsolete motherboards". What would be wrong with "Sun working to make motherboards obsolete"? Whoo, five more characters to read, but it's worth it.
Maybe it's because I'm English, I don't know, but I do know that when I am king I will de-obsolete public flogging for people who debase the language thus.
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