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Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips

Posted by timothy on from the just-tickle-the-electrons dept.

coondoggie writes "Nvidia said this week it got a contract worth up to $20 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop chips for sensor systems that could boost power output from today's 1 GFLOPS/watt to 75 GFLOPS/watt."

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  1. NVIDIA is worth $7.87 billion by MSTCrow5429 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So of course the Federal government needs to blow $20 million of taxpayer money, irregardless of its fiscal condition.

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  2. Re:did i misread something ? by Rockoon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We passed 1e+07 operations per kWh in 1965.
    We passed 1e+08 operations per kWh in 1971.
    We passed 1e+09 operations per kWh in 1976.
    We passed 1e+10 operations per kWh in 1981.
    We passed 1e+11 operations per kWh in 1987.
    We passed 1e+12 operations per kWh in 1992.
    We passed 1e+13 operations per kWh in 1997.
    We passed 1e+14 operations per kWh in 2001.
    We passed 1e+15 operations per kWh in 2008.

    citation and graph

    Energy efficiency consistently doubles approximately every 1.6 years, so if we are at ~16 glops/watt right now, then we will blow past DARPA's target early in 2016... just a little over 3 years from now.

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