The First BitTorrent Optimized Microprocessor!

[Pinnacle]

The BitTorrent-optimized STR9810/20 microprocessors will be available in Q1, 2007. Two versions of the chip are available with various hardware-based acceleration levels. Both chips feature an ARM922-based core, network interface and dual USB 2.0 high-speed ports, allowing fast integration with existing embedded consumer products such as wireless routers, NAS, smart HDD enclosures, DVD players, set-top boxes and DLNA digital media appliances. The chips will be available to systems designers starting at $8.75 in quantities of 1,000.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5678

[Order]

I just hope they can put one of these on a motherboard as a co-processor.

[aintz]

thats pretty cheap

[yaddam205]

I just hope they can put one of these on a motherboard as a co-processor.

Yea I think this chip mounted in a PCI-E 1x is perfect.

[nn_step]

Yea I think this chip mounted in a PCI-E 1x is perfect.

it is an ARM9TD series based chip, meaning PCI

[lowfat]

tell me what is the point?

[zir_blazer]

The Chip price seems cheap, but giving Hardware acceleration to something to runs more than perfectly fine on a today computer is pointless.

[frankR]

What's wrong with like 2% of a 3 Ghz Core 2 Duo?

[mr_knowitall15]

yeah, i hardly see the point of a dedicated chip for bit torrents. If this trend continues we'll have little co-processors for EVERYTHING! Weve already got sound, video, and physics now, soon well have torrent chips, MS Word chips, Adobe CS chips, etc. etc.

[xlink]

just integrate the little into the CPU and be doen with it...

[(sin)morpheus]

A dedicated cpu for torrents isn't that useful but a dedicated machine is. I find that when gaming I lose a noticable amount of performance if a torrent is running in the background. I'm guessing it's mostly due to how torrents like to eat memory.

[xlink]

A dedicated cpu for torrents isn't that useful but a dedicated machine is. I find that when gaming I lose a noticable amount of performance if a torrent is running in the background. I'm guessing it's mostly due to how torrents like to eat memory.

it's more likely based on how they like to eat a sizeable amount of online bandwidth.

[STEvil]

no, its all system useage.

Just like how steam's use of GCF's will slow your system to a crawl.

Torrent style downloading is very good. I wish it was utilized more.

[nn_step]

sounds like we are heading towards a new Amiga

[Eastcoasthandle]

hmm from my understanding this is not necessary a computers only item at all but of components like Tivo or something like that.

[Warship]

sounds like we are heading towards a new Amiga

Bashing Amiga now are we?

[Baldrick]

What's wrong with like 2% of a 3 Ghz Core 2 Duo?

I dont think this is aimed at the PC market, instead it says it is for set top boxes and things. So your PVR/HD-DVD player/whatever else can get media via bittorrent.

This will be the future for broadcasting with content providers (iirc the bbc did a trial or something) using bittorrent technology instead of expensive servers and bandwith. (Would of course be closed and packed with drm though )

[NapalmV5]

on nic cards?

[nn_step]

Bashing Amiga now are we?

absolutely not, the Atypical pre-emptive multitasking microkernel OS was a wonderful design and 20 years ahead of its time.
Overall it was a killer media system, heck early episodes of the television series Babylon 5 were rendered on Amigas running Video Toasters.