Chicory already is pitching designs for accelerating the processing of video and audio streams, as well as accelerators for convertingcode written for cell phone chips designed by ARM, the British shop, into code that can be read by Pentiums and other chips.
The HIV retrovirus, in particular, is a single-stranded RNA virus that duplicates itself in a host cell by converting its genetic code into double-stranded DNA that is then inserted into the host cell.