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Interesting. The last I can find on the Automata Processor is from 2014, when it was supposedly being delivered to developers within weeks. And then nothing. I wonder what happened to it. Doesn't seem like it ever turned into a shipping product.

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I only heard of the university of Virginia getting some to work with. https://engineering.virginia.edu/center-automata-processing-...

Ah, cool. Seems like the latest paper involving the AP is from 2016.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/wang_APoverview_... has more information

> This work was supported in part by the NSF (CCF-0954024, CCF-1116289, CDI-1124931, EF-1124931); Air Force (FA8750- 15-2-0075); Virginia Commonwealth Fellowship; Jefferson Scholars Foundation; the Virginia CIT CRCF program under grant no. MF14S-021-IT; by C-FAR, one of the six SRC STARnet Centers, sponsored by MARCO and DARPA; a grant from Micron Technology.

I guess the other comment wasn't too far off.

Not at all. The paper is still interesting though.

Maybe they found one good client, a 3 letter one.

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