Start-up Could Kick Opteron into Overdrive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday April 23, 2006 @11:36PM from the true-niche-markets dept.

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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Microsoft eyeing up these by LiquidCoooled · 2006-04-23 23:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

A specialist co processor for processing your spyware and spam would be double plus good.

I actually like the idea of a co processor sitting there, but I wonder why you wouldn't just stick another opteron in and write custom code?

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