Many have tried and failed to challenge the tech giants Intel & AMD; however newcomer Lyric feels they have just the answer or at least the best guess.

"Startup Lyric Semiconductor is introducing new processor circuitry that officials say will calculate probabilities at a faster rate and at a fraction of the cost of x86 chips from Intel and AMD... the world of computing is moving away from the binary 1s and 0s and toward probabilities. The yes/no nature of binary computing is fine for such tasks as operating systems, databases and spreadsheets, Vigoda said in an interview with eWEEK. But many applications that are becoming ubiquitous in today’s world—from fraud detection and financial modeling to genome sequencing and search—are not looking for the yes/no answers, but rather the best guess answer from among any number of possibilities." | More