Desu Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/081810-chip-startup-developing-probability.html Lyric Semiconductor, a startup company founded by an MIT scientist and a veteran semiconductor executive, is working on a processor designed to calculate probabilities that could dramatically increase computer performance in certain applications. Lyric described the GP5 chip as a "general purpose programmable probability processing platform" and said it could perform probability calculations 1,000 times faster than existing computers based on x86 processors from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. The chips are intended for use in applications such as processing search queries, fraud detection, spam filtering, financial modelling and genome sequencing, among others, it said. Best Practices for large WLAN deployments: Virtual Wireless LAN : View now Chip start-up Smooth-Stone raises $48M in bid to take on Intel The company plans to offer samples of the GP5 in 2013. Lyric was founded in 2006 by Ben Vigoda, who holds a doctorate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and David Reynolds, a veteran of several semiconductor companies. The company has received more than US$20 million in funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), other government agencies, and venture capital firm Stata Venture Partners. At the heart of Lyric's technology is a different approach to chip design. Existing digital processors rely on logic gates that can be switched on and off to represent 1s and 0s, like a light switch. However, Lyric's chip designs are based on gates that function more like a dimmer than a switch, the company said. "These circuits can accept inputs and calculate outputs that are between 0 and 1, directly representing probabilities -- levels of certainty," Lyric said, adding that its probability processors are designed to perform calculations in parallel, rather than in sequential order like a traditional CPU. The GP5 will build on the company's Lyric Error Correction chip for flash memory. That chip, announced on Tuesday, is designed to correct and fix errors in flash memories more efficiently than existing chips. The LEC chip is a much smaller than digital error correction chips and consume a fraction of the power, the company said. The LEC chip technology is currently available for licensing, it said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Term!n@tor Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 These circuits can accept inputs and calculate outputs that are between 0 and 1, directly representing probabilities -- levels of certainty," Lyric said, adding that its probability processors are designed to perform calculations in parallel, rather than in sequential order like a traditional CPU. WOW amazing! probabilties approach to processing is just superb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desu Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 1000times faster than intel or amd... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krauersaut Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 The chips are intended for use in applications such as processing search queries, fraud detection, spam filtering, financial modelling and genome sequencing, among others, it said. Perfect gaming processors to sum it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desu Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 Perfect gaming processors to sum it up. hell yeah. With this, you can be running 5 crysis lol and no real lag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinZeroX Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Sweet... I wonder what would it be like to play ET with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desu Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 since ET is cpu dependent.....like 10k fps lmaoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Term!n@tor Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 since ET is cpu dependent.....like 10k fps lmaoo fps hax!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdkxeon Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 sounds good but its useless for me ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desu Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 sounds good but its useless for me ! no shit its will be useless for almost everyone. this will prob be used for government, science and all that cool shit, not gaming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Term!n@tor Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 no shit its will be useless for almost everyone. this will prob be used for government, science and all that cool shit, not gaming computers take over the world thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desu Posted August 26, 2010 Author Share Posted August 26, 2010 computers take over the world thing? hell i wouldnt mind, computers will do better job running gov than Obama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Term!n@tor Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 hell i wouldnt mind, computers will do better job running gov than Obama totally agree though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdkxeon Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 can that cpu automatically download all the latest porn videos piling up on internet to my pc ? can that cpu call a hooker when i need one ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Term!n@tor Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 can that cpu automatically download all the latest porn videos piling up on internet to my pc ? can that cpu call a hooker when i need one ? every thing is possible once computers take over the world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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