Re: First Commercial Optical Processor

From: Le Chaud Lapin (unoriginal_username_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: 29 Oct 2003 21:01:42 -0800

Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote in message news:<3FA02A81.4EC7A701@t-online.de>...
> 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

Yes they can, and just one is sufficient.

Kinda makes you wonder why anyone would want a general-purpose
processor, doesn't it?

-Chaud Lapin-

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