14 DAY TRIAL // Micron was delightfully technical (and, thus, confusing to the populace at large) in its new press release, but I was able to divine some meaning, so here it is.
Micron has introduced Automata Processor (AP), an accelerator, or rather a new parallel processing architecture, that enhances computing capabilities in bioinformatics, video/image analytics, and network security.
Essentially, the AP is composed of thousands to millions of interconnected processing elements, all of which create a task-specific processing engine.
It should be able to search and analyze complex, unstructured data streams very quickly.
It sounds like a sort of alternative to GPU-based parallel processing, and it was maybe kept in mind by Intel when it supposedly decided to turn Xeon Phi from PCIe card to LGA CPU.
Graphic design, simulation tools, and a software development kit (SDK) will allow developers to design, compile, test, and deploy their own applications starting in 2014.