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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: i-node who wrote (379893)4/23/2008 1:46:47 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1578341
 
"I would assume they still have some applicability in process control and similar applications"

Even those cases are extremely rare these days. With single chip micros going for less than $0.25 each in quantity, they are hard to say 'no' to.

The last stronghold for analog computers is hardware neural networks. And they aren't very common. The military was the big consumer at one time, but I don't know what the current status is.