On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:55:29 -0700 James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IIRC, there was a major argument about whether programmable hardware > would be suitable for a graphics processor. > > In the October Electronic Products, I find this: > > http://tilera.com/products/processors.php The Tile64 CPUs target a different market. They want to provide high performance computing in enviroments where you need more power than a standard CPU can provide at the given power budget and more flexibility than an ASIC. Thus they actually build a massiv parallel processing architecture. Very interesting stuff from the technological/scientific point of view, but not viable as a consumer product (the technology is way to expensive to be build into a cheap, single function consumer product). Oh yes, programming them must be hell for the i-only-know-java crowd :-) Attila Kinali -- Praised are the Fountains of Shelieth, the silver harp of the waters, But blest in my name forever this stream that stanched my thirst! -- Deed of Morred _______________________________________________ Open-hardware mailing list Open-hardware@duskglow.com http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hardware
