News.com is covering the Hot Chips 19 conference on high performance processors taking place this week at Stanford University. Among the highlights, chip-to-chip interconnect technology; wireless HDTV transmission for home use; looking beyond CMOS to photonics, nanotech and quantum computing; the Tile64 chip from Tilera; science fiction icon Vernor Vinge on "digital gaia"; the journey of AMD's Barcelona; IBM's Power 6; Intel's 965 chipset and new Penryn processors; and the first quad-core laptop, Xtreme 917V Accelerator.
