Sun Microsystems has locked down a $44.29 million research deal with which it could develop a “macrochip” that speeds up ultra-complex computing processes through laser technology. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has finalized a 5 1/2-year contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that Sun says presents “a unique opportunity to develop supercomputers through interconnecting an array of low-cost chips, with the potential to overcome the fundamental cost and performance limits of scaling up today’s large computer systems.”
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DARPA Grants Sun $44M for ‘Macrochip’ Development
Posted by: Jim Offner March 26, 2008 03:50 PMSun Microsystems has locked down a $44.29 million research deal with which it could develop a “macrochip” that speeds up ultra-complex computing processes through laser technology. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has finalized a 5 1/2-year contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that Sun says presents “a unique opportunity to develop supercomputers through interconnecting an array of low-cost chips, with the potential to overcome the fundamental cost and performance limits of scaling up today’s large computer systems.”