Start-up Could Kick Opteron into Overdrive

An anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting that a new start-up, DRC Computer, has created a reprogrammable co-processor that can slot directly into Opteron sockets. This new product has the potential to boost the Opteron chips well ahead of their Xeon-based competition. From the article: 'Customers can then offload a wide variety of software jobs to the co-processor running in a standard server, instead of buying unique, more expensive types of accelerators from third parties as they have in the past.'"

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price performance

[sfraggle]

From the article:

"We have taken the approach that we must deliver three times the price-performance of a standard blade."

Isn't this BAD? Three times the Price/performance ratio would imply a higher price, or worse performance.