Steam Cell Computing / Zii

[AndrewAPrice]

I found video: http://www.zii.com/Technology/StemCell.aspx

It's mostly marketing but there are some interesting concepts if you watch it through.

The Zii Plaszma (on the same site) could be for anyone interested in mobile development. It has some really cool hardware in it. 2 inbuilt cameras, duel ARMs (in addition to the stem processing units I think?), OpenGL ES 2.

[earlz]

Very interesting.. I wasn't aware it had come that far. (Petaflops in one chip!!)

[NickJohnson]

Very interesting.. I wasn't aware it had come that far. (Petaflops in one chip!!)

Petaflops on one chip isn't that impressive, or in fact that useful. You can easily get huge amounts of computing power by having lots of chips running in parallel. Average video cards have thousands of times more computing "power" than average CPUs. However, due to Almdahl's law, you can't get much out of it except on certain kinds of tasks, like graphics or supercomputing.

[Combuster]

Just give FPGAs a new name, like Zii, and then go brag around its the best thing since, uhm...