News Patchwork design may give speedier chips

From New Scientist:

The microprocessors inside future computers could exchange data hundreds of times more efficiently than today's machines using a technique being developed by researchers at US company Sun Microsystems.

Sun researchers led by Ivan Sutherland have developed a simple prototype system capable of transferring 21.6 billion bits of data per second. The Sun team says "capacitive coupling" could eventually be used to transfer a trillion bits of data per second. The fastest desktop computer can transfer data at about 50 billion bits per second.

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