"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these..." (No, seriously.) This puts peta-scale APU computing into the sub-$500k range. That's affordable by a (funded) startup,

"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these..." (No, seriously.) This puts peta-scale APU computing into the sub-$500k range. That's affordable by a (funded) startup, and there are certainly interesting things one could do with that kind of supercomputing firepower.