On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:21:21 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > On Tuesday 22 February 2005 05.41, jipi wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was thinking, > > > > we always have dedicated graphic cards for gaming/3D rendering etc.. > > why don't we have some h/w optimised audio algos running on some > > FPGA/DSP/ etc... > > Because there isn't enough demand for it. Only musicians have any > serious use for that kind of hardware, whereas half the planet needs > accelerated graphics - especially with all the eyecandy that > Microsoft, Apple, the KDE and Gnome people etc have decided we > need. ;-)
Yes, except that the Cell processor is quite DSP like with 8 floating point processors per cell, I dont know if it will ever become afordable in some package thats available to consumers, but it would be very good for audio processing. - Steve
