Re: First Commercial Optical Processor

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:00:49 +0100

cesar bremer wrote:
>
> In this link you will see more:
>
> http://www.lenslet.com/newsItem.asp?showArchive=&newsId=184
>
> "The processor is specified to run at a speed of 8 Tera (8,000 Giga)
> operations per second, one thousand times faster than any known DSP"

Being ignorant in hardware issues, I have a dumb question:
Couldn't a DSP do quite a lot of what a normal processor
does (anyway if a number of DSPs are employed)? Thanks.

M. K. Shen

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