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Proximity Communication

 

             has created a new type of communication which could ultimately spell the end of the integrated circuit board. This new technology is called proximity communication; this was presented by Sun Labs researcher, Robert Drost to the Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Custom Integrated Circuits Conference yesterday in San Jose. Proximity communication is based on the same principles of that of a capacitor. A capacitor is made up of two oppositely charged pieces of metal that are separated by an insulator. They are used in almost all electronic devices. Proximity communication is the transferring of data between chips without using the pins and wires that today's computers have. This is able to be done by coupling capacitors together. If the capacitors are close enough together the data can be sent from one capacitor to another with out the use of wires. The rate at which data can be transferred between components like the computer's memory and processor has increasingly become a bottleneck for the computer industry, since the silicon and wires connecting computer components have simply not been able to transfer data as quickly as new components can process it. This made a bottle neck in the computer, and until now there was no way to solve it. But proximity communication could achieve much faster transfer rates which would dissolve this bottleneck. This new technology could make integrated circuits as obsolete as tubes in Televisions. However before this technology can be introduced into the market Sun Microsystems has to manufacture proximity communication components in volume. This technology has quite a ways left to go before, if ever its available to the public so don't go getting you hopes up.
            


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