On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 2012-03-05 à 15:03:00, Charles Henry a écrit : > > >> Sorry--I have no good news for you... and perhaps this knowledge only >> adds to your injury. The ASIC in your sound card has many, many times >> the potential that it actually gets used for--up to 10,000 MIPS on a >> quad-core DSP and up to 128 channels. > > > It's just normal that increasingly more powerful technology becomes generic > so that it can be used in many more products so that it can sell more so > that it can pay for its own development and cut down on the production > costs... eventually we put supercomputers inside chequebook-sized boxes and > call them « telephones ».
I believe the 20k2 chip was rolled out in 2007. By contrast, my 2009 HTC Hero had less power than that, but that's apples v. oranges. The problem I see with this chip is just that: it has so much capability that it could be used for a wide range of products, but then the designers program it and build salable hardware around just one sort of "surround sound" product. The free market has clearly failed... > The best you can do is write a distributed-computing virus that detects any > such ASIC and hook it on some math problem such as trying to crack > exterrestrial prime numbers and stuff... ;) Yes, something USEFUL :) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
