Ignoring the legal spat, it's interesting that someone is trying to direct packets at the GPU. In a way, GPUs and high-end routers have similar demands: execute

Ignoring the legal spat, it's interesting that someone is trying to direct packets at the GPU. In a way, GPUs and high-end routers have similar demands: execute the same code in parallel on huge numbers of data units - and I understand that there are also similarities in the microarchitecture. So it wouldn't surprise me if you could implement a high end router using a GPU. All those floating-point ALUs would be sitting idle, of course, so it might be an expensive solution; although the economies of scale in GPUs might be larger than routers, so it might work out. Devil is in the detail, of course.