Hi cirabre,
IBM is a sad and pathetic company. Seems to me that for every 10 items they announce (which are amazingly ahead of our time, too), they actually produce one, and it's very, very, very expensive too. Also,
by the time they launch IT ALMOST everyone else has caught UP!!!
I do NOT doubt their research capabilities, just their bringing products to market part at
common people pricing. I have NO idea how they survive. (Must be some secret government pet project, ala X-Files, keeping them alive (secret funds channeled into the corp f. ex.).)
HEY!!! Check it out!!!!!
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Rapport currently offers a KC256 chip featuring 256 processing elements for more than 25 gigabyte operations per second using less than a single watt of electricity. That processor is available with development platform and tools.
AVAILABLE NOW! (04/05/06 1:48 PM PT)
So how many here own one?
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Different Application
Instead of running Windows, Linux, or other modern computer operating systems, the architecture and high-density cores of chips such as Kilocore are best suited to specific algorithms, including video and code compression, Reynolds said.
"It's really focused on doing a single task very well," he said.
Although Kilocore's promoters touted the ability to dynamically reconfigure the chip for compute-intensive applications Get the Facts on BlackBerry Business Solutions, Reynolds indicated such work can be difficult.
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"We couldn't have built this relationship without Power.org," said Rapport President Frank Sinton. "Combining the outstanding Power architecture with Kilocore will open up Power's extensive application base and developer community to the world of handheld, mobile and in-the-field computing."
Always a rosey picture, though never any genuine developments, truely ibm
inaction.
How many handhelds use this today?
The idea was to have motherboards that use Cell processors. They're $5,000 dollars each, and STILL aren't available as the PS3 is using up every one produced.
I say, buy JUST the PS3 MB and sell it as an Amiga.... Just need it to be able to put more ram on there.... up to 16 GB. Oh and a SATA and RAID controller.
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Heh, check it out,
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/42894.html