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Analysis Google’s orgiastic, eccentric acquisition of start-up PeakStream must scare the major players in the server processor and hardware universe. An ad broker has eaten a potentially super-valuable, industry-wide asset with no greater ambition than self-gratification in mind. As a result, high-end server applications could hobble along for years to come.
The bleak scenario presented above goes too far, if you’re wedded to near-term thinking. PeakStream, a two year old start-up, made software tools that helped ease the flow of single-threaded software across fancy, multi-core parts such as today’s x86 chips from Intel and AMD and tomorrow’s GPGPUs (general purpose GPUs) from Nvidia and AMD/ATI.
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