Sun Turns to Lasers to Speed Up Computer Chips

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 24, 2008 @05:44AM from the friggin-lasers dept.

alphadogg writes to mention that Sun is attempting to move from the typical design of multiple small chips back to a unified single-wafer design. "The company is announcing today a $44 million contract from the Pentagon to explore replacing the wires between computer chips with laser beams. The technology, part of a field of computer science known as silicon photonics, would eradicate the most daunting bottleneck facing today's supercomputer designers: moving information rapidly to solve problems that require hundreds or thousands of processors."

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Re: Sun Turns to Lasers to Speed Up Computer Chips by Broken+scope · 2008-03-24 06:28 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You twat. Stop trying to be a pedantic prick. It says "Sun", The shortened name of a company called Sun Microsystems thats typically used in conversation by a large number of people who don't have shit for brains. Lets not forget the logo displayed to the side of the article summary.

You might not be such a dumb fuck if the title said "The sun".

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