On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
Le 2012-03-05 à 15:03:00, Charles Henry a écrit :
Sorry--I have no good news for you... and perhaps this knowledge only adds to your injury. The ASIC in your sound card has many, many times the potential that it actually gets used for--up to 10,000 MIPS on a quad-core DSP and up to 128 channels.
It's just normal that increasingly more powerful technology becomes generic so that it can be used in many more products so that it can sell more so that it can pay for its own development and cut down on the production costs... eventually we put supercomputers inside chequebook-sized boxes and call them « telephones ».
I believe the 20k2 chip was rolled out in 2007. By contrast, my 2009 HTC Hero had less power than that, but that's apples v. oranges.
The problem I see with this chip is just that: it has so much capability that it could be used for a wide range of products, but then the designers program it and build salable hardware around just one sort of "surround sound" product. The free market has clearly failed...
The best you can do is write a distributed-computing virus that detects any such ASIC and hook it on some math problem such as trying to crack exterrestrial prime numbers and stuff... ;)
Yes, something USEFUL :)