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	<title>Peter Principle &#187; Chips</title>
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		<title>Nvidia GPU &#8211; the new hacker tool</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/10/13/nvidia-gpu-the-new-hacker-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nvidia is justifiably proud of how their GPU can accelerate scientific applications. People have been able to speed up everything from ray tracing to computational chemistry by 10x to 50x. Unfortunately, tools for good can also be used for evil. In this case, accelerating brute-force password cracking, for Wifi network encryption: Turbo-charged wireless hacks threaten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customizing ARM for Iphone</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/09/15/customizing-arm-for-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New iPhone Chip Will Cost an ARM and a Missile
Wei-han Lien, the senior manager of Apple’s chip team, [says on LinkedIn] he’s busy at work crafting an ARM processor for the next-generation iPhone.
PA Semi had assembled an all-star cast of chip engineers, including Lien, and Apple confirmed that it bought the company for that talent. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petaflops from IBM and Sun</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/06/26/petaflops-from-ibm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer&#8211;the Blue Gene/P&#8211;that will be capable of processing more than 3 quadrillion operations a second, or 3 petaflops, a possible record. Blue Gene/P is designed to continuously operate at more than 1 petaflop in real-world situations.
Blue Gene/P marks a significant milestone in computing. Last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graphene dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/03/05/graphene-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have developed a transistor from graphene membrane,  a &#8220;new class of carbon allotrope&#8221;. And no, I don&#8217;t know what that means either. But it sure sounds promising:
Researchers at the University of Manchester, working with a group at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, claim to have created transistors that are just one atom-thick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing games with wave functions</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/02/15/playing-games-with-wave-functions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, a Canadian company chose an unusual setting to announce a new computer system &#8211; the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. (Home to thousands of unsuccessful machines made by now defunct companies). There D-Wave Systems demonstrated their 16 qubit quantum computing device, remotely located in Burnaby, BC. You can&#8217;t do much with 16 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Streaming video</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/02/13/streaming-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at Stream Processors just announced their new DSP architecture at ISSCC this week. Good luck to them. (SPI was started by my old boss, Stanford Professor Bill Dally).
They claim their processor can perform an order of magnitude better than conventional DSPs.Â  According to SPI, one of their chips can encode H.264 video at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel Teraflop chip</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/02/12/intel-teraflop-chip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel Prototype May Herald a New Age of Processing
The Teraflop chip, which consumes just 62 watts at teraflop speeds and which is air-cooled, contains an internal data packet router in each processor tile. It is able to move data among tiles in as little as 1.25 nanoseconds, making it possible to transfer 80 billion bytes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A cent per MIPS?</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2006/11/29/a-cent-per-mips/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2006/11/29/a-cent-per-mips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Rise of &#8220;Freeconomics&#8221;, Chris Anderson at The Long Tail claims that we have recently passed a milestone: 20,000 MIPS of processing power for $200, or a penny-per-MIPS. He goes on to argue that when technology becomes cheap enough to be effectively free, it radically changes how we use those resources.
Of course, the cheapest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sony is the loss leader king</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2006/11/16/sony-is-the-loss-leader-king/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2006/11/16/sony-is-the-loss-leader-king/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[â€œWith the PlayStation 3, you are getting the performance of a supercomputer at the price of an entry-level PC,â€
[iSuppli estimates] the combined materials and manufacturing cost of the PS3 at $805.85 for the model equipped with a 20GB drive and $840.35 for the 60GB version (not including additional costs for stuff like the controller, cables [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sell at a loss and make it up in volume</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2006/11/13/sell-at-a-loss-and-make-it-up-in-volume/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2006/11/13/sell-at-a-loss-and-make-it-up-in-volume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PlayStation 3 on Rescue Mission
Sony will not disclose the total cost of creating the PlayStation 3, which has been in development for six years. But analysts say the sum reaches into the billions of dollars. Sony has revealed that it spent $2 billion on one major component alone, the high-speed Cell microprocessor, co-developed with I.B.M. [...]]]></description>
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