Since most image-processing operations, such as sharpening up a fuzzy document, or altering the colours in a photograph, involve looking at the value of a particular pixel and then altering it depending on the value of adjacent pixels, this is a real advantage.

ECONOMIST: Analogue computing

Chimera architecture removes those boundaries by providing the power to conduct nearly 100 billion mathematical operations per second to perform image processing, using computational techniques used in X-ray CT scanners, deep space telescopes and spy satellites.

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The focus of the hardware is to significantly speed up data processing for large, data crunching operations like compression, image recognition, and search functions.

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