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NEC gizmo speeds CPU memory connection
Attack of the Terabits
Mon Sep 18 2006, 11:28
JAPANESE GIANT NEC, in conjunction with Fujitsu and Hitachi and the government, has designed a high speed
memory-CPU interconnect.
Nikkei.net reports that the device will be used in a future Japanese supercomputer costing ¥110 billion ($1=¥118).
That machine well belt out 10 quadrillion calcs a second, said the wire, and will be operational in five years' time.
The NEC gizmo uses optical interconnects which allows every CPU in the machine to belt out 1,000 optical signals simultaneously, swapping data to memory at a staggering 20 terabits/sec, said Nikkei.net. µ
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