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The personal supercomputer is near. The Munich-based PACT Corp. [193] with its coarse-grained reconfigurable XPA (Xtreme Processing Array) product (also see fig. 30) has demonstrated, that a 56 core 16-bit rDPA running at less than 500 MHz can host simultaneously everything needed for a world TV controller, like multiple standards, all types of conversions, (de)compaction, image improvements and repair, all sizes and technologies of screens, and all kinds of communication including wireless. More high performance by less CPUs, by reconfigurable units instead of CPUs.