Singularity in 18 months?

From: Aaron Davidson (ajd@ualberta.ca)
Date: Tue Jun 15 1999 - 21:06:03 MDT


I don't know if this is bullshit or not, but it sounds pretty amazing.

A company called "Star Bridge Systems" is claiming they can have $1000
computers in 18 months which are 60000 times faster than a PII-350:

        http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/15/supercomp.idg/

That would put us about where moore's law would have us in 20 years, but in
18 months instead.

If their claims are true, the singularity could be a lot closer than we've
imagined....

I'll believe it when I see it...

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