All of which starts with the need at the semiconductor level to reduce the silicon cost and power, at the same time increasing the performance per dollar.

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Setting new levels of performance-per-dollar, the AMD FirePro W5000, W7000, W8000 and W9000 GPUs are capable of delivering 1.5 times greater performance than other available solutions(3).

ENGADGET: AMD reports $1.27 billion in revenue for Q3 2012

This year, the retail price of one mip (millions of instructions per second) of computer performance will drop below a dollar.

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