Sun's Unconventional Thinkers Contrarian Minds

Ashok Krishnamoorthy finds himself on the cusp of a dream. He's leading an ambitious research project that aims to bring light speed (rather than wire speed) to microprocessors. How? Through a combination of materials science, quantum mechanics, silicon photonics, and an optical extension to Proximity Communications, Sun's wireless chip-to-chip I/O technology. The promise is so great that the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Sun $44 million to fund the project over the next five and a half years. More