This Man Built A $53,000 Supercomputer Just To Play Tetris
It measures 10 meters wide and 2 meters high. It weighs half a ton. It cost $ 53,000. And he has only used it to play Tetris. Such is the description of the “technological son” of James Newman, an electronic engineer who lives in Cambridge, in central England: a homemade “Megaprocessor” which occupies a whole room. Newman started working on the machine in 2012. It contains 40,000 transistors, 10,000 LED lights and consumes about 400 watts of electricity. Despite how daunting it is, it does the same work as a…
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