i take it we are not going to get the current (shipping?)256 Kilocoreâ„¢ FPGA, never mind the 1,024 kilocore for use with the likes of that HMC app you mention, or with the genesi products.
i note your reference url mentions
"Some HDTV broadcasters also
plan to use MPEG-4, which
offers a slightly higher compression
rate for a given perceived
quality and/or possibly
multiple channels to deliver a
high-end HDTV signal."
and hence they are refering to the old and outdated mpeg-4 ASP(aka divx/xvid) rather than the new mpeg-4 AVC(aka H.264/ mbaff etc) that gives you 2.5+ more compression on average at the expense of more decoding power that a kilocore would handle just fine by all accounts.
CES video
http://www.rapportincorporated.com/back ... t_ces.html
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/49772.html
" IBM, Rapport Unveil Energy-Wise Power Chip
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Power.org member Rapport unveiled a new energy-efficient processor dubbed Kilocore that features more than 1,000 processing elements around a Power chip architecture.
Kilocore -- with parallel processing similar to that of the new Cell processor, Sun's Niagara, and Azul's multi-core chip -- has the ability to join hundreds or even thousands of parallel processing elements on a single chip that saves energy by cutting the distance for computing signals."
http://www.rapportincorporated.com/kilocore/kiloco...
"Kilocoreâ„¢ Overview
Conventional technology is unable to meet the processing and power consumption requirements of many of today’s complex products such as audio, video and data processing “securely†on mobile devices. In addition,
evolving standards and next generation functional requirements often move faster than today’s development design cycle creating product obsolescence before shipment.
Kilocoreâ„¢ products can be upgraded in the field via software, enabling delivery of next generation features while creating potential downstream revenue models.
Dynamically Reconfigurable Computing
Kilocoreâ„¢ processors use a powerful new parallel computing architecture that dramatically lowers power consumption for equivalent computational performance. Kilocoreâ„¢ technology utilizes arrays of dynamically reconfigurable parallel processing elements optimized for performance. Each processing element in a Kilocoreâ„¢ stripe can be dynamically reconfigured in one clock cycle. Kilocoreâ„¢ tools support both dynamic reconfiguration of processing elements and formatting of all types of data. The unique Kilocoreâ„¢ architecture provides the following benefits:
Flexibility: functions can be dynamically changed in a single clock cycle.
Performance: unprecedented performance via simultaneous computing of multiple functions.
Scalability: hundreds to thousands of processing elements on a single chip.
Efficiency: Extremely low power consumption.
Rapport's KC256 Chip utilizing Kilocoreâ„¢ Architecture"
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