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November 13, 2012

Supercomputers and Your Gadgets

Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOm


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In the near term companies are eking more performance out of chips without using too much power by using co-processors taking a cue from the supercomputer industry. In the long term, though making faster and more efficient chips will take place at the subatomic scale.

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