Kewl hardware stuff

Sun Labs has a neat tradition called the Intellectual Dessert; every Tuesday at 3pm somebody gives an hour-long presentation about their ongoing research. They're usually quite interesting & serve to keep people at the lab in touch with what their collegues are doing. Today's presentation was about an amazing breakthrough that was recently in the news: Proximity Interconnect.

Rob Drost (with a little help from Ivan Sutherland) gave an overview of the technology & followed it with some fairly detailed (and classified) explanations of how this new design is made possible. Rob is an excellent speaker so my rudimentary knowledge of electrical circuits & rusty knowledge of chip design were sufficient for me to follow almost everything he said.