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It didn't even dawn on me that that figure was supposed to represent graphs until I read your comment (and then the caption), I had just assumed it was supposed to represent Big Data.

Yeah, they missed including a pie chart and a gantt chart for good measure.

Most of the industry has moved on to Deep Pie Charts.

FYI, they're called 'chicago charts' for those in the know...

Yeah, a bit embarrassing for a magazine that covers technology, HIVE defintely works on graph-theory graphs. Even weirder is the (Source: DARPA) attribution.

Also they say the processor will use "1000 times less energy". Incredibly confused thinking goes into writing a sentence like that.

Maybe an Igon Value Problem?

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Igon_Value_Problem

That would make sense to me.

I had to stop and chuckle when I saw the author put "[John] von Neumann architecture..." when quoting somebody who was simply talking about the industry standard term of "von Neumann architecture".

What's next? "[Alan] Turing machines"?

Its hard to display 2^n dimensions in a graph.