Clearspeed in talks with AMD about co-processor

DLoney · 17-March-06, 12:40 AM

"Clearspeed, the Bristol parallel processor company, is in talks with AMD about developing a closely-coupled co-processor to soup up the AMD multi-core family of x86 processors.

Ã‚â€œClearspeed is talking to AMD about producing a closely-coupled co-processor,Ã‚â€ said Jeff Underhill, business development manager for 64-bit embedded applications at AMD.

The talks may be the result of an awareness of the stunning performance of the IBM/Sony/Toshiba microprocessor Cell."

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Dual Clearspeed processors on a PCI card - 50Gflops of extra performance

Jobistober · 17-March-06, 12:45 AM

Definitely a nice find, and very interesting. We'll have to wait and see if anything comes from this...

DLoney · 17-March-06, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Jobistober


	Definitely a nice find, and very interesting. We'll have to wait and see if anything comes from this...

Thanks.
But after reading up on more on the company, it looks like they are also in bed with IntelÃ‚â€¦
Time to invest.

RBIEZE · 17-March-06, 04:30 AM

Have you ever looked at the price of a single module.
Last I heard they were in the area of $10,000.
hopefully their getting cheaper

It would be nice to see something like this for the general public,but you also need the software for it .
I thought it only ran special code ???
So theres another hurdle to overcome also.

I could be wrong though ,I havent looked into it for over a year now...

17-March-06, 12:40 AM		#1 (permalink)
DLoney Apex Master Tech	Clearspeed in talks with AMD about co-processor "Clearspeed, the Bristol parallel processor company, is in talks with AMD about developing a closely-coupled co-processor to soup up the AMD multi-core family of x86 processors. Ã‚â€œClearspeed is talking to AMD about producing a closely-coupled co-processor,Ã‚â€ said Jeff Underhill, business development manager for 64-bit embedded applications at AMD. The talks may be the result of an awareness of the stunning performance of the IBM/Sony/Toshiba microprocessor Cell." [Link] [Picture Above] Dual Clearspeed processors on a PCI card - 50Gflops of extra performance

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17-March-06, 12:45 AM		#2 (permalink)
Jobistober P'Hoe'toshop Fanatic	Definitely a nice find, and very interesting. We'll have to wait and see if anything comes from this...

17-March-06, 04:30 AM		#4 (permalink)
RBIEZE Apex Tech Demi-God	Have you ever looked at the price of a single module. Last I heard they were in the area of $10,000. hopefully their getting cheaper It would be nice to see something like this for the general public,but you also need the software for it . I thought it only ran special code ??? So theres another hurdle to overcome also. I could be wrong though ,I havent looked into it for over a year now...