> Reminds me slightly of the Cell processor I was thinking the same. Also the Tilera CPU with many cores and mesh network (back in mid 2000's, eventually boug

> Reminds me slightly of the Cell processor I was thinking the same. Also the Tilera CPU with many cores and mesh network (back in mid 2000's, eventually bought by Nvidia and used in something, don't remember). Tangent: Back in early 2000's I had a hobby project (ALife with ANN brain) and I was looking for more computation. Multiple CPU's was not ideal, GPU wasn't ideal because the read/write/computation model only matched 1/2 of my ANN's flow and was a mismatch for the other half. I read about a new cpu and I ended up talking to one of the key guys from Tilera, I was pretty impressed they would take the time to talk to some random guy working on a hobby project. I asked about the performance of individual computational units (assuming custom could beat the industry) and he surprised me when he responded "nobody is going to beat Intel at integer, you won't get an increase from that perspective"