Re: Massively parallel FPGA systems

[Dyke Stiles <g.s.stiles@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi -

I think that Alan Chalmers told me that the firms who build very high-
performance graphics cards are working along this line.

Dyke.


> Now that Starbridge has been panned - 
>
> Does anybody out there know any massively parallel single-die chips
> made of huge numbers of identical little CPUs? In reality, in
> vaporware, in patents, or a glimmer in someone's eye... I don't
> mean any wimpy 64, I mean thousands. Starting from the fact that
> newest Pentium has over 100 million transistors, and a perfectly
> good CPU of the 1980s can be made with 40,000.
>
> They are interested at work, so please send any Windows-style
> attachments to my work address (ldickson@xxxxxxxxxxx) as this
> ancient ISP can't deal with them.
>
> Larry Dickson


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