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And maybe Mill Computing can follow through with the claim that their belt based, general purpose DSP CPU design can beat all other offerings at least with rega
by zeotroph 10y ago
And maybe Mill Computing can follow through with the claim that their belt based, general purpose DSP CPU design can beat all other offerings at least with regard to power use. I wonder how long it will be until physical chips are out. Or at least new talks, they were really good.
- the_duke 10y agoI watched all the talks and it taught me a lot about how CPUs work, and what an interesting new architecture the "belt machine" is. Highly recommended. http://millcomputing.com/docs/ http://millcomputing.com/docs/
- snuxoll 10y agoI was enthralled watching those talks, and the concept of storing high-level bytecode for executables that gets targeted to the specific machine at runtime is a concept I've always found cool (I can install an ancient AS/400 app on our IBM i that was originally built on IBM's ancient 48-bit CPU the old systems had on our shiny POWER7 box as long as they didn't use any private API's). However, we'll see what happens if and when they produce real silicon whether the concept will be another Itanic, even AMD moved away from VLIW designs for their GPU's for performance reasons ~4 years(though, to be fair, they don't exactly have the $$$ to pay for tremendous amounts of driver developers to optimize their code generation anymore).