Actually they claim their 26 million buck "hypercomputer" will be 60k times faster. They claim the low end $1k one will be "3 orders of magnitude" faster I think. Still interesting though. With this, the AMD K7, the Transmeta stuff, and other things going on I might be selling my Intel stock soon :^)
Aaron Davidson wrote:
>
> I don't know if this is bullshit or not, but it sounds pretty amazing.
>
> A company called "Star Bridge Systems" is claiming they can have $1000
> computers in 18 months which are 60000 times faster than a PII-350:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/15/supercomp.idg/
>
> That would put us about where moore's law would have us in 20 years, but in
> 18 months instead.
>
> If their claims are true, the singularity could be a lot closer than we've
> imagined....
>
> I'll believe it when I see it...
>
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Aaron Davidson <ajd@ualberta.ca> http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~davidson/ |
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-- Join the ExI/>H SETI team today: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_show&id=393 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "It IS possible." - Vincent, _Gattaca_