Where did you see that they are investing such money in the concept? I thought this was being done by teams at two universities - I've never heard of a university-based research project costing more than a few 10s of millions. Sean On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:02 PM, N. T. wrote: > Oli Glaser wrote: >> It does say "on a single chip" though. To have done it on one of those > >> 30M gate multi-FPGA boards would be "easy" and far less impressive I gue= ss. >> I think the cores they are not your typical soft cores we are used to, >> probably designed/specialised to work together at the task in hand, >> share resources etc (probably a bit like the cores on GPUs as N.T notes) >> Maybe they are stretching the definition of the word "core" (e.g. does >> it have a "full" instruction set? can it perform "standard" core tasks? = etc) >> It would be nice to know more (sure we will soon), > > They are investing hundreds of millions in the idea (concept), and I'm > sure they know what they are doing. =A0Good ideas are not always cheap. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .