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Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by 100x
- temptemptemp111 2y ago[dead]
- netcraft 2y agotechcrunch article with more info https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/11/flow-claims-it-can-100x-any-cpus-power-with-its-companion-chip-and-some-elbow-grease/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/11/flow-claims-it-can-100x-an...
- timruffles 2y agoPreviously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650662
- sandworm101 2y ago>> Flow has shown that its technology works in FPGA-based tests >> Flow's technology enhances the CPU's functionality by managing tasks at nanosecond intervals, allowing multiple processes to occur simultaneously, thereby increasing throughput without changing the CPU’s clock speed or architecture. The connections between things in a FPGA are considerably longer than within a dedicated CPU. I have doubts that improvements seen on FPGAs would translate directly to dedicated CPUs.
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- lbourdages 2y agoMy understanding of their tech is that it's very similar to Itanium's VLIW architecture. We all know how that ended up... making compilers more complex turned out to be far from ideal.
- josefritzishere 2y agoThis is the 2024 version of magic gasoline additives.
- ashf023 2y agoIs this different than existing instruction level parallelism and hyperthreading? > [CPUs] primary limitation is that as serial rather than parallel processors, they can only do one thing at a time. Of course, they switch that thing a billion times a second across multiple cores and pathways This is from the article, not the company, but unless I'm misreading it, it's just wrong
- galaxyLogic 2y agoAnother new tech for speeding up matrix multiplications: https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/03/19/lightsolver-laser-computing-system-empowers-enterprises-to-solve-optimization-problems/ https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/03/19/lightsolver-laser-c...