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It seems as though ASICs are the method of choice for every high performance system. The examples that come to mind are supercomputer interconnects and the comp

It seems as though ASICs are the method of choice for every high performance system. The examples that come to mind are supercomputer interconnects and the completely engineered from scratch Anton[1] machines that DE Shaw Research uses for very specific computational chemistry applications. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_%28computer%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_%28computer%29

Symmetry 14y ago
Yes, going from a general purpose CPU to an ASIC will generally improve performance per watt by two or three orders of magnitude.
spydum 14y ago
the packet switching still occurs in ASIC, it's the routing forwarding table population which can be done in software