Clearspeed and AMD to design a new co-processor?

[Mendel]

Clearspeed, the Bristol parallel processor company, is in talks with AMD about developing a closely-coupled co-processor to soup up the AMD multi-core family of x86 processors.

The Bristol-based firm's CSX600 chip has 96 processor cores, runs at 250MHz, dissipates 10W, and adds 25Gflops to a computer’s performance.


Read more and see a picture of dual Clearspeed processors on a PCI card at:

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2006/03/15/37936/ClearspeedplansAMDco-processorlinkup.htm


Now, what would be the use for this new co-processor? Some specific use or something more general purposeish?

[maaoouud]

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29326

[Mendel]

Oops, didn't see that. Maybe that thread should be moved over to hardware section though, many of pc technology enthusiasts probably would totally miss the issue at console tech forum...