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Comments on: Sun splits DARPA photon-linkage cake with Kotura

Surely... 

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 17:19 GMT

Coat

they should power the chips this way as well, leading to Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Voltage And Communications (UNIVAC)?

other uses 

Posted Wednesday 3rd September 2008 17:30 GMT

Black Helicopters

Small, fast computers that are very efficient are also ideal for augmented soldier contraptions and battlefield robots. The flying video surveillance bat especially, but medic bots and mine clearing bots, too.

Optical computer quote. 

Posted Thursday 4th September 2008 09:05 GMT

Coat

Oo! I can see my other processors from here.

I thought Sun was getting out of the chip business 

Posted Thursday 4th September 2008 11:48 GMT

Alien

Opensource, Java, Solaris, who needs hardware

this is a funny site I found while searching for Sun's rock chip

www.sunsucks.com

TeeCee... 

Posted Thursday 4th September 2008 13:54 GMT

That was so poor you made my dog cry :(

Even "I can see the BUS is running behind again"...

Would've been better.

What the heck is DARPA doing funding Sun? IBM is.... 

Posted Friday 5th September 2008 20:02 GMT

SUN? They have no hope in the processor world. IBM is miles ahead on on-chip optical interconnects. Last I read they also got funding from DARPA and were producing some pretty incredible optical results.

This sounds like another deal made with a senator on a golf course instead of by tech heads who have a clue.

DARPA and Sun 

Posted Saturday 6th September 2008 12:18 GMT

Maybe IBM's solution was not as good as Sun's and because of that, they got the funding?...

who said Sun is quitting chips business?.. opensource, java, solaris... that's only software... IBM does hardware and software too... doing one doesn't imply leaving the other... your logic fails