Comments on: Spurned by VCs, a chip startup turns to Kickstarter http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/spurned-by-vcs-a-chip-startup-turns-to-kickstarter/ Sat, 25 May 2013 11:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: MySoLaunchCampaign http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/spurned-by-vcs-a-chip-startup-turns-to-kickstarter/#comment-1037734 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:01:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566213#comment-1037734 Good luck to them

]]> By: Chuck McGinley http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/spurned-by-vcs-a-chip-startup-turns-to-kickstarter/#comment-1025007 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:55:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566213#comment-1025007 My point being it’s an irrelevant statistic…what the liner addition of the clock speeds to any (N) number array processor is. Since the early 90s you have been able to link together Analog Devices SHARC processors in two dimensional arrays and NO ONE ever added the individual processor speeds together to give any kind of meaningful number.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/spurned-by-vcs-a-chip-startup-turns-to-kickstarter/#comment-1024016 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:54:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566213#comment-1024016 That’s one of the reasons Adapteva is so keen to get people using its chips. Scaling your cores linearly (or anywhere close) will need advanced in programming. Adapteva uses a RISC-based architecture and on the 64-core version the cores are running at up to 800 Mhz and on the 16-core version they run at 1 Ghz.

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/spurned-by-vcs-a-chip-startup-turns-to-kickstarter/#comment-1023999 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:50:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566213#comment-1023999 The Samsung Galaxy 3 has a dual core and a quad-core version. Is that what you are talking about? There’s also a 1.5 GHz and 1.4 Ghz version of the cores depending on the spec sheet and maybe carrier.

]]> By: reach99 http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/spurned-by-vcs-a-chip-startup-turns-to-kickstarter/#comment-1023991 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:47:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566213#comment-1023991 Just read this on Wikipedia:

As of mid-2012, the highest clock rate on a production processor is the IBM z196, clocked at 5.2 GHz, which was released in June of 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_rate

So it would be impressive to have 5.1 GHz. I suspect they are doing some creative mathematics by saying if each core runs at 1GHz then 64 cores must mean 64 GHz.

Correct me if my analogy is wrong here but cars don’t go faster just because there are more lanes on the highway.

]]> By: Chuck McGinley http://gigaom.com/2012/09/27/spurned-by-vcs-a-chip-startup-turns-to-kickstarter/#comment-1023843 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:46:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=566213#comment-1023843 “the 64-core version of his board delivers 51 gigahertz (compared to the 1.4 gigahertz processor inside the Samsung Galaxy 3)”

You may want to check that???

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