On 08/01/2011 20:02, 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.  Good ideas are not always cheap.

Like Sean, I can't see any mention either of how much funding there is=20
behind this.
Just in case I'm misunderstood, I wasn't criticising their efforts at=20
all (not anywhere near enough info to make any judgement) just speculating.=
..
I'm sure they know what they are doing too, it all sounds very impressive..=
..

P.S.  Ideas are free - it's the application/realisation of them (or the=20
extraction of them from whoever had them, persuading them to have more=20
etc..) that may not be.. :-)



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