Impact of on-line gaming on networking

Summary form only given. Willingness to customize microprocessors for specific applications has uniquely positioned IBM as the microprocessor supplier of choice to the games market. An identical approach of customizing microprocessors for network processing provides tremendous processing power and gives much more flexible networking functions support compared to what is offered by classical network processors with hardware co-processors. Evolution of the gaming industry is driving a need for microprocessors whose structure supports both gaming and networking functions with a very high level of programming flexibility with a consistent programming model, as well as the tremendous performance required by on-line gaming on networking