Thai coffee is brewed strong, spiced with chicory and combined with condensed milk and ice.
In tests using conventional cell phone chips, Chicory reduced the time required to decrypt a 40-stock list from 18 seconds to 1.6.
Chicory plans to license its speedy design to chipmakers so they can add muscle to low-end chips for wireless devices.
"In a market where everything has to be portable and fit in your pocket, the Chicory approach will work better, " Baron says.
Chicory stands a good chance of invading the low end of the market for wireless devices, says Max Baron, editor of Microprocessor Report.
Chicory, still privately held, has yet to announce any deals with customers, but Derrick says he's negotiating with several big electronics and semiconductor makers.
Instead of handling them one at a time, Chicory's HotShot accelerator looks for all the "plus-2"instructions at once and reduces them to a single directive.
One upstart, Chicory Systems of Austin, Texas, pursues the opposite approach: Because the chips aren't up to the task, they should be made to think less.
The experience only gets better with his signature spiced rabbit and chorizo with parsnip and skordalia (a Greek garlic and potato dip), all covered with grumolo verde chicory.
Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip act like a genius.
Instead of exploring the layers of meaning in the script, Ashford presents a stereotype of Williams all sorghum, chicory, and cornpone logic while, at the same time, trying to upstage him.
But whereas the tofu is the least successful dish of the night (the chicory that comes with it tastes unfortunately like muddy peanut butter), the gluten-free dessert is a triumph.
She remembers looking out at the endless fields where her father grew the chicory he then roasted and sold in neat packages in the postwar years, before coffee came back.
Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip behave like a genius.
Chicory already is pitching designs for accelerating the processing of video and audio streams, as well as accelerators for converting code written for cell phone chips designed by ARM, the British shop, into code that can be read by Pentiums and other chips.
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