But that swivel camera, the ports, all that stuff — much more promising than the iPad's extremely limited hardware.
First, 1-bit quantizers are extremely inexpensive hardware devices that test values above or below zeros, enabling simple, efficient, and fast quantization.
The extremely modest hardware requirements make it a suitable solution also for CPLDs/FPGAs (Complex Programmable Logic devices/Field Programmable Gate Arrays).
The company, which was co-founded by an extremely experienced hardware CEO Sonny Vu and former Apple CEO John Sculley, has been building beautifully designed wearables in the health space.
"In addition to extremely compelling hardware, Glowforge has put a ton of energy into their software and community, which is [a] hallmark of disruption in this type of a product as you shift from high end professionals only to the 'prosumer,'" Feld said.
Despite its impressive performance, investors remain extremely bearish on hardware.
Extremely disruptive: undercuts hardware manufacturers, while removing cost and complexity barriers standing in the way of non-consumers.
Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical.
By all standards, this was extremely unusual for a hardware company and, as it turned out, it was unsustainable.
Zstandard is both a new compression algorithm and a reference implementation which has been designed to be extremely performant with modern hardware.
