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Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the look-ma-no-solder dept.

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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  1. In other news.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot Microsystems is working hard on a system to eliminate duplicate postings. They hope to have the system working by early 2008.

  2. Groundhog day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think this has happened before...

    1. Re:Groundhog day by silverz · · Score: 4, Funny

      A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

  3. Slashdot working by sien · · Score: 4, Funny

    To obsolete grammar!

  4. I see it now... ;-) by Henk+Poley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Honey, I'll warm you something in the microwave!

    Noooo...

    [Beep] rebooting... grmbl...

  5. Great opportunity for Sun by murr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sun should find this project rather easy going - their motherboards ARE already pretty obsolete anyway.

  6. Re:Sun Invents a new computer form factor by Metallic+Matty · · Score: 4, Funny

    The downside is that kids can no longer tell the difference between their candy bags and your new UBER-1337 computers.

    I got a rock.

  7. Re:uhm... i can see it now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dupe story...$1

    Overused Mastercard joke....$10

    Knowing that WegianWarrior still lives with his mom...priceless

  8. Re:DUPE by cachorro · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder how much more Sun would need to pay to get this article posted a third time.

  9. Re:Sorry. by tiled_rainbows · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    evil math within Nature's Cubic Creation!