AngryCorgi
24th of March 2008 (Mon), 23:07
I read this on Tomshardware.com:
Sun calls its project macrochip technology, completely redesigning the way in which chips communicate with each other. If this is successful, circuit designs will fundamentally change, both on the silicon level and on the board level.
Sun isn't the only company working on photonics. NEC, Intel, IBM, HP and even MIT are investing vast sums of resources into the same research. Working with photonics firm Luxtera and Kotura, Sun's project was favored by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency because of Sun's previous success in aligning silicon dies edge to edge to improve chip-to-chip communications.
Sun claims that its technology is very close to being commercialize. Its partner, Luxtera, already has near-production level prototypes. Sun hopes to produce photonic chips that are able to process millions of trillions instructions per second.
Can't wait to use this new vastly superior technology to enhance my experience in Microsoft Solitaire! WOOHOO!!
:eek:
Sun calls its project macrochip technology, completely redesigning the way in which chips communicate with each other. If this is successful, circuit designs will fundamentally change, both on the silicon level and on the board level.
Sun isn't the only company working on photonics. NEC, Intel, IBM, HP and even MIT are investing vast sums of resources into the same research. Working with photonics firm Luxtera and Kotura, Sun's project was favored by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency because of Sun's previous success in aligning silicon dies edge to edge to improve chip-to-chip communications.
Sun claims that its technology is very close to being commercialize. Its partner, Luxtera, already has near-production level prototypes. Sun hopes to produce photonic chips that are able to process millions of trillions instructions per second.
Can't wait to use this new vastly superior technology to enhance my experience in Microsoft Solitaire! WOOHOO!!
:eek: