<s>
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
Technology	O
Ltd	O
was	O
a	O
semiconductor	O
company	O
,	O
formed	O
in	O
2002	O
to	O
develop	O
enhanced	O
SIMD	B-Device
processors	O
for	O
use	O
in	O
high-performance	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
and	O
embedded	B-Architecture
systems	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
processing	O
elements	O
each	O
contain	O
a	O
32/64	O
-bit	O
floating	O
point	O
multiplier	O
,	O
a	O
32/64	O
-bit	O
floating	O
point	O
adder	O
,	O
6KB	O
of	O
SRAM	O
,	O
an	O
integer	O
arithmetic	B-General_Concept
logic	I-General_Concept
unit	I-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
a	O
16-bit	O
integer	O
multiply	B-Algorithm
–	I-Algorithm
accumulate	I-Algorithm
unit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
card	O
is	O
supplied	O
with	O
the	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
Software	O
Development	O
Kit	O
and	O
application	O
libraries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Related	O
multi-core	O
architectures	O
include	O
Ambric	B-Device
,	O
PicoChip	B-General_Concept
,	O
Cell	O
BE	O
,	O
Texas	O
Memory	O
Systems	O
,	O
and	O
GPGPU	B-Architecture
stream	B-Application
processors	I-Application
such	O
as	O
AMD	O
FireStream	O
and	O
Nvidia	B-Device
Tesla	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
competes	O
with	O
AMD	O
and	O
Nvidia	O
in	O
the	O
hardware	B-General_Concept
acceleration	I-General_Concept
market	O
,	O
where	O
computationally	O
intensive	O
applications	O
offload	O
tasks	O
to	O
the	O
accelerator	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
2009	O
,	O
only	O
the	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
e710	O
performs	O
64-bit	O
arithmetic	O
at	O
its	O
peak	O
computational	O
rate	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2003	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
demonstrated	O
the	O
CS301	O
,	O
with	O
64	O
processing	O
elements	O
running	O
at	O
200MHz	O
,	O
and	O
peak	O
25.6	O
FP32	O
GFLOPS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2005	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
demonstrated	O
the	O
CSX600	O
,	O
with	O
96	O
processing	O
elements	O
running	O
at	O
210MHz	O
,	O
capable	O
of	O
40GFLOPS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2005	O
John	O
Gustafson	O
joined	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
as	O
CTO	O
of	O
high	B-Architecture
performance	I-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2005	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
made	O
its	O
first	O
significant	O
sale	O
of	O
CSX600	O
processors	O
to	O
the	O
Tokyo	O
Institute	O
of	O
Technology	O
using	O
X620	O
Advance	O
cards	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2006	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
X620	O
Advance	O
cards	O
helped	O
place	O
the	O
Tsubame	O
cluster	O
7th	O
in	O
the	O
TOP500	B-Operating_System
list	B-Operating_System
of	I-Operating_System
supercomputers	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2007	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
licensed	O
its	O
next	O
generation	O
processor	O
to	O
BAE	O
Systems	O
for	O
inclusion	O
in	O
satellite	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
2007	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
raised	O
£20	O
million	O
in	O
share	O
placing	O
on	O
the	O
AIM	O
market	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2008	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
released	O
the	O
CSX700	O
,	O
combining	O
two	O
CSX600	O
devices	O
with	O
a	O
PCI	O
Express	O
x16	O
interface	O
and	O
ECC	O
on	O
all	O
memories	O
,	O
using	O
a	O
lower	O
power	O
90nm	O
process	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
2009	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
announced	O
a	O
cost-cutting	O
programme	O
following	O
poor	O
financial	O
results	O
for	O
2008	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2009	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
delisted	O
from	O
the	O
London	O
Stock	O
Exchange	O
and	O
returned	O
£6.9	O
million	O
to	O
its	O
shareholders	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
2009	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
made	O
its	O
most	O
significant	O
sale	O
through	O
high	O
performance	O
and	O
heterogeneous	O
compute	O
specialists	O
PetaPath	O
.	O
</s>
