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Flow claims it can 100x any CPU's power with its companion chip

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• aappleby 2y ago
  "CPU modifications are minimal, involving the integration of the PPU interface into the instruction set" This absolutely reeks of bullshit and vaporware. Anyone know what this thing actually does?
  • readthenotes1 2y ago
    It makes things faster without making things faster, at least from this article.
    • tuatoru 2y ago
      Do they also sell dehydrated water? That would make multi-day hiking 100x better.
• BugsJustFindMe 2y ago
  > The CPU is the weakest link in computing,” said Flow co-founder Wait until they hear about storage and memory latency.
• al2o3cr 2y ago
  "100x improvement" in _memcpy_ performance? On a benchmark ("Matched Parallel Algorithms") where a Xeon is 10x _slower_ than an i7? Their page that should have details is equally vague: https://flow-computing.com/technology/ https://flow-computing.com/technology/ For instance, the "VIRTUAL ILP/LLP" section sounds very similar to operand forwarding, a technique roughly as old as pipelined execution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operand_forwarding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operand_forwarding