OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu Laboratories Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. announced the development of transmitter circuits, equalizer circuits for transmission loss, and receiver circuits capable of communicating at 32 Gbps, the world's fastest speed to date. These developments will support inter-processor communications in the next-generation of servers.

Along with increases in CPU performance in recent years, the data processing capabilities of servers have improved greatly, leading to a need for faster data communications between chips and between circuit boards. Through the development of a new kind of transceiver circuit, along with an equalizer circuit that can compensate for signal degradation in transmission lines, Fujitsu Laboratories has made it possible to roughly double data communications speed between CPUs.

These new technologies are expected to lead to improved performance in the next-generation of servers and supercomputers.

Details of the new technologies will be presented at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference 2013 (ISSCC 2013), beginning Sunday, February 17, 2013 in San Francisco (ISSCC presentations 2.7, 2.1, and 2.5).