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Subject: High Speed Image Processors
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Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 17:59:00 EST
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Has anyone looked into the Lucasfilm Pixar for doing image processing
work? How does it compare to something like the PIPE (Pipelined
Image Processing Engine)?

Both seem to be about the same price ($125,000). The PIPE claims
a speed of up to 800 million multiply/accumulate operations/second
but appears to operate on 8 bit pixels.

The Pixar claims around 120 million instructions/second on (I think)
16 bit pixels.
						harold ravlin
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