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News Lyric unveils probability processors

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  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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    CardJoe, 17 Aug 2010
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  2. Da_Rude_Baboon

    Da_Rude_Baboon What the?

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    One step closer to a probability drive! Time to make reservations at the restaurant at the end of the universe.
     
    Da_Rude_Baboon, 17 Aug 2010
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  3. yuusou

    yuusou Multimodder

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    Didn't PPU already stand for Physics Processing Unit?

    Anyway, I'll only believe in these "maybe" when I see them in action.
     
    yuusou, 17 Aug 2010
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  4. bob_lewis

    bob_lewis Lurker extraordinaire

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    You're thinking of the improbability drive perhaps? Bring it on!
     
    bob_lewis, 17 Aug 2010
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  5. Tom @ CCL

    Tom @ CCL AKA: Yewen

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    My thoughts on this are the following two questions:

    1) Why are AMD and Intel not advertising the same developments?
    2) Why has Lyric not been purchased by a bigger player yet?
     
    Tom @ CCL, 17 Aug 2010
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  6. crazyceo

    crazyceo What's a Dremel?

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    More chances of a "Holly Hop Drive"
     
    crazyceo, 17 Aug 2010
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  7. Plugs

    Plugs Minimodder

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    Intel: "Note to self... Find giant coins to make our chips look smaller"
     
    Plugs, 17 Aug 2010
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  8. [USRF]Obiwan

    [USRF]Obiwan What's a Dremel?

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    What's next, self aware processors?
     
    [USRF]Obiwan, 17 Aug 2010
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  9. Tangster

    Tangster Butt-kicking for goodness!

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    This sounds very cool, but as proxess stated, I'll believe it when I see it.
     
    Tangster, 17 Aug 2010
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  10. pimlicosound

    pimlicosound What's a Dremel?

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    I can't imagine we'll be any happier with our computers when we ask them to perform a task and they respond: "Meh".
     
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  11. Xir

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    Is that the actual chip?
    Haven't seen one using wire-bonding for ages...just a prototype, right?
     
    Xir, 17 Aug 2010
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  12. MartyEF

    MartyEF What's a Dremel?

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    Isn't this just fuzzy logic?
     
    MartyEF, 17 Aug 2010
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  13. Deadpunkdave

    Deadpunkdave ...why you need a 20-sided die

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    My guess would be

    1) Because it required years of research by MIT physicists to make this feasible and will require years more to make it work. Intel and AMD would need to hire specialist teams and give them an R&D budget of astronomical proportions just to catch up.
    2) If you had a product which you envisioned being in every PC in the world in 10 years' time, you wouldn't sell your company for any amount of money, especially if you're already backed by a massively wealthy institution like MIT.
     
    Deadpunkdave, 17 Aug 2010
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  14. technogiant

    technogiant What's a Dremel?

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    Perhaps it can work out the probability of finding a dead cat in a box...or not....lol
     
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  15. Cthippo

    Cthippo Can't mod my way out of a paper bag

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    That's an infinite improbability drive, and it needs a really hot cup of tea to work, which requires a larger cooling system.

    To me, this sounds like the first really different path in Computing in a long time. It also seems like a stepping stone to programming for quantum computing whenever the hardware gets here. If they can make this work then I think it will be a major evolutionary step in computing.

    Might even be able to run Crysis on full!
     
    Cthippo, 17 Aug 2010
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  16. TSR2

    TSR2 What's a Dremel?

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    ...'Look at me, brain the size of a planet and all you ask me to do is play Crysis'...
     
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  17. Boscoe

    Boscoe Electronics extraordinaire.

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    Could you run windows on it?
     
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