[linux-audio-dev] Linux DSP Hardware?

[Steve Harris]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:21:21 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 February 2005 05.41, jipi wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I was thinking,
> > 
> > we always have dedicated graphic cards for gaming/3D rendering etc..
> > why don't we have some h/w optimised audio algos running on some 
> > FPGA/DSP/ etc...
> 
> Because there isn't enough demand for it. Only musicians have any 
> serious use for that kind of hardware, whereas half the planet needs 
> accelerated graphics - especially with all the eyecandy that 
> Microsoft, Apple, the KDE and Gnome people etc have decided we 
> need. ;-)

Yes, except that the Cell processor is quite DSP like with 8 floating
point processors per cell, I dont know if it will ever become afordable
in some package thats available to consumers, but it would be very good
for audio processing.

- Steve