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Signal processing immediately comes to mind, and that is the use I am planning to put the chip towards. An associate of mine has developed a new method for signal decomposition on non-linear signals which FFT is not suitable for, and which is able to split the processing into parallel streams of processing. Because the chip consume so little power, you will be able to build high performance processing into a small portable box that can run on batteries or USB (depending on how power efficient the final chip is, but they are currently talking about 2 watts).