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A US Startup is about to release a CPU that could threaten Intel AMD, and Nvidia
- phendrenad2 6y agoInteresting, here's the actual product specs: https://www.tachyum.com/assets/img/Datasheet-216.pdf https://www.tachyum.com/assets/img/Datasheet-216.pdf
- bcrl 6y agoLooks very similar to what Transmeta did. Hard to know if there are any real gains without hands on the actual hardware. 4 instructions per clock as 2.8GHz is not exactly earth shattering performance by modern standards.
- zsmi 6y agoThe architecture looks fairly different than Transmeta's architecture to me although the purported multiple ISA user feature is similar. They presented some high level stuff at ISC 2020. https://www.tachyum.com/assets/img/Tachyum_20ISC20.pdf https://www.tachyum.com/assets/img/Tachyum_20ISC20.pdf The image on slide 7 looks almost exactly like this design (including the 8x8 core matrix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TILE64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TILE64 Which targeted the same market. The problem is, this is actually a pretty hard architecture to program for.
- aDfbrtVt 6y agoNo mention of process node or TDP...
- lixtra 6y agoWhile I can imagine niche applications I cannot see this becoming mainstream soon. Usually software needs to be rewritten to take advantage of the FPGAs - often using different algorithms. Earlier attempts: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9790/ibm-xilinx-sc15-collaborating-for-better-powerfpga-system-integration https://www.anandtech.com/show/9790/ibm-xilinx-sc15-collabor...