emediawire.com — Taiwan's IAdea & Star Semi annouce the STR9810/20, the world's first BitTorrent-optimized microprocessor for integration with existing embedded consumer products such as wireless routers, NAS, smart HDDs, DVD players, set-top boxes, and DLNA appliances. Features: ARM922-based core, network interface, and dual USB 2.0 high-speed ports.
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hockyfightJan 12, 2007
Pretty cool if you think about this, they should just figure out how to add such a simple chip onto a product such as Ageia's PhysX processor board, then they could market the board as useful for something other than 10 games that look to physics intensive to be real. And you would have no reason to waste another PCI slot on your mobo.
waterdragonJan 12, 2007
"so why not add it to hardware that's likely to move and thus need to mesh with other hardware such as phones and portable devices..."Oh Nooooo! Not phones! Imagine you are talking to someone, assisted by other people's phones -- it will just make hacking into your conversation a little too easy. But on the good side, you won't need to be near a cell-phone transmission tower -- as long as there is a line of people with cell phones between you and the nearest tower.
waterdragonJan 12, 2007
Pay?! No Way! It would be easier to move over to usenet!
rambleJan 12, 2007
I don't see this being marketed to the average Digg user (pirate). Instead it'll probably be useful for something like a set-top box where networks can diliver on-demand video via Bit-torrent.
grantthegr8Jan 12, 2007
Call me stupid but I don't really get it. Are they saying you can share processing power with this thing? How would that work? I read most of the article but it only served to confuse me further.