Tuesday, December 5, 2006

CHIPS, now designed by powerful supecomputers

Supercomputers can do many things; nuclear simulation, weather forecast and other things. But they can now design potato chips.

I am not kidding; Pringles potato chips are designed using [supercomputing] capabilities, to assess their aerodynamic features so that on the manufacturing line they don't go flying off the line," said Dave Turek, vice president of deep computing at IBM. Check the news at CNN below

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/12/05/supercomputers/index.html

1 comment:

Dr. Taisir Eldos said...

I have always wondered: is there any relation between the two types of chips; potato chip and silicon chips ?! it seems there is