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Clearspeed Makes Tall Claims for Future Chip

Posted by michael on from the pound-of-salt dept.

Josuah writes "ClearSpeed Technology announced today a new multithreaded array processor named the CS301. Their press release states the chip can achieve 25Gflops for only 3W of power. New Scientist and TechNewsWorld have articles on this chip, each with more information about the chip. I wondering if this is too good to be true." The key phrase is in the Wired story: "Soon to be in prototype, the chip...". "Soon to be in prototype" is synonymous with "does not exist".

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  1. In other news... by Ikeya · · Score: 3, Funny

    Today it was announced that Duke Nukem Forever would be optimized to run on the new CS301 processor develpoed by a new firm called ClearSpeed Technology. It is said that with this newfound processing speed, Duke Nukem Forever will be the most realistic game ever realeased.

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  2. Skeptical by cybermace5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    As well as the fact that I've seen this press release trolled by AC's on Slashdot.

    25Gflops on 3W? That must be some unorthodox technology at work there. Anyone hear anything about some research corporation finding an amazing processor in a robot from the future?

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  3. Onyxruby's law by onyxruby · · Score: 3, Funny

    Onyxruby's law:

    The amount of hype per inch produced by marketing doubles every 18 months.

    With apologies to Moore ;) /me reminded of when apple tried claiming the imac as supercomputer.