Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vandys@vsta.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Date: 5 Oct 2012 00:41:27 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <923e0c628f2cd64d742acdea342c91e8@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> <1vCdnRlaMek9UfDNnZ2dnUVZ_rCdnZ2d@supernews.com> X-Trace: individual.net sHntoohSh0R6dUPUt+oRNgdRGRCM4nNfIBGqdDfB4Y01EUGvM5 X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:aAzl2E1yQNJfrixRSnvci6fS6fk= User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (Linux/3.2.0-31-generic-pae (i686)) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:15934 rickman wrote: > ... with the current selling > price of the GA144, I don't see it being suited to high volume markets > except perhaps an extremely small niche. I'm certainly not arguing the case for the current chip. But the tiny dab of silicon implied by their architecture would be almost in the noise for any current production CPU chip; their technology is clearly compatible with low cost and low power. The real question seems to be whether its new software model can gain traction in any actual product. -- Andy Valencia Home page: http://www.vsta.org/andy/ To contact me: http://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html