Is Hyperchip Hype?

Peter Galbraith writes "There was an interview on CBC (here in Canada) last evening about Hyperchip, a Montreal-based company that are working on a new type of router that would scale up 1000 times in traffic (so wouldn't be obsolete in less than a year) and would pass packets to their destination in a few hops instead of a dozen or more. Any experts out there think it's hype? Or real?" The explanation on Hyperchip's "technology" page is pretty thin, but considering they just raised $70 million, I hope they've given more convincing details to their investors.

Comments

Hyoerchip

[FigBug]

With a name like HyperChip its got to be a hoax. I it was real it would have a name like RXE-8635P

Step One:

[Saint Aardvark]

Step One: Tell everyone you have an amazing new router.
Step Two:
Step Three: Profits!

Re:Step One:

[ekrout]

Step Two: Sign-up for a user account at the ultimate geek site and post a story about Step One.

;-)

Re:Step One:

[Saint Aardvark]

I'm afraid ekrout knows too much. He has become...expendable.

Get him, my robots!

Tang.

[Anonymous Coward]

No, no. They should have tacked on some more names.

Hyper
Compu
Global
Ultra
Turbo
2002

Now all it needs is some sort of advertising-catchy slogan-type thing.

IBM Guy: Let the UltraGlobalDominatorChip2002 Allow your business to stomp down on the little guy.
Duffman: Oh yeah!

Funny Coincidence

[Zenithal]

I'm here in Montreal, and I applied to go work for them not even a week ago.

I was inadequate :)

If they can figure that out, they probably have a chance.

Those were the days...

[Gerald]

"With the conservative estimates of the Internet usage doubling every six months, the need for bandwidth at the core of the Internet is outpacing the ability of the conventional router technology to keep up."

Am I the only one, or did this make anyone else nostalgic for the mid-90s?