This press release from Pixellexis/Ambric Silicon caught my attention today. Pixellexis are the folks who tried to raise a buzz at NAB this year with their RedBox external processing unit. Every time I went by their booth, it was a bit empty. As Mike said, “I’m not sure I’d start a company based on the idea that computers will never get faster.”
In any case, the press release talks about the new Ambric Silicon chips they’re using, which have 300+ cores in a single die. Which sounds suspiciously like a commodity GPU. With OpenCL in the near future (and far cooler than the public info would have you believe), it’s hard to imagine dropping serious cash on a proprietary secondary processing unit.