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You do realise it costs over a million dollars just for the mask set 
when making a 0.13u chip,
let alone the development costs, packaging etc etc.

Chad

erikc wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David VanHorn" <dvanhorn@cedar.net>
> To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>; <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 01:38
> Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: Semi manufacturers ?
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> >
> > >
> > >I have to process a text file that can be up to 10Tb in
> size, the data
> > >is only ascii, so I can not see the point for a larger
> sized CPU. Once a
> > >  string is found, all it needs to do is hand the string
> up to the next
> > >CPU for serving.
> >
> > Sounds like a job for a beowulf cluster.
>
> Well, if you want to develop semiconductors, why not a RAM
> chip with a simple processor built in?  The processor would
> have its own small RAM for holding its programmes and a
> means of entering those programmes, causing them to run, and
> getting results off-chip.   You'd load all the little CPU's
> in parallel and let them loose, each one looking at the data
> on its own chip.  Now I'm not talking a CPU with some RAM,
> I'm talking 256 megabytes of RAM and maybe 4K of entirely
> separate RAM for the CPU's code.  Since you are basically
> using it to search for patterns, the CPU could be optimised
> for that.
>
> I actually think there might be a market for that kind of
> thing.
>
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