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		kijiki on Nov 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon bares its computers They used merchant silicon in their custom switches. Modern switch ASICs are 2+ billion transistor devices with lots of fancy custom logic for SRAMs and TCAMs and analog magic for PHYs. Even Google can't afford to do that by itself.

twic on Nov 18, 2013 [–]

Pfft. They can just map-reduce over each bit in the frame.

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