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Posted by shioyama 3 hours ago

$30M Raised to Redo the CPU(tendrils.co)
28 points | 14 comments
MiroslavPokorny 41 minutes ago|
I always wonder where will x86 be in 10 or 20 years time. As data paths widen for SIMD, how many can they possibly cram even more generations of wider and wider groups of instruction with different opcodes and characteristics.
throwaway2037 7 minutes ago|
Do you remember the 1990s everlasting arguments about RISC vs CISC? There were so many arguments (online and magazines) saying that "soon" RISC would eat CISC. And yet, it never happened. I'll be dead before the demise of x86. More likely: The computing landscape will get more complex. Probably ARM will become a legitimate competitor to x86 outside of handheld computing, and RISC V will become a legitimate competitor to ARM for single board and handheld computing.
throwaway2037 18 minutes ago||
How will this be better than RISC V?
gnabgib 17 minutes ago|
Who do you expect to answer? It's a tiny future product announcement, it neither exists, nor is it a Show HN from someone involved
fusslo 13 minutes ago||
a man can dream
largbae 1 hour ago||
Isn't this basically a GPU?
skavi 53 minutes ago||
> This requires moving beyond the notion of shared mutable memory and linear instruction sequences.
ranger_danger 1 hour ago||
Yep, and they're probably simulating/emulating their CPU design on GPUs already.
exmadscientist 38 minutes ago||
TL;DR: it's basically Niagara/GreenArrays/etc again.

Not sure why this one will succeed where its forebears didn't.

nonesuchthing 57 minutes ago||
Have you seen the new CPU architecture? It's on Mill. It's literally on Transputer. It's on Rock with Sun. It's literally on AMULET. You can probably find it on Itanium. Dude it's on Tesla. It's a CDC STAR original. It's on E1. You can program it on E1. You can go to E1 and program it. Get onto E1 right now. Go to E1. Dive into E1. You can E1 it. It's on E1. E1 has it for you. E1 has it for you.

In all seriousness congratulations on finding $30 million to launder and lose immediately. Hope your Porsche runs good.

whoanoway 5 minutes ago|
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bix6 3 minutes ago||
> Sources say that the company is already discussing a fast follow-up raise that would potentially value the firm at more than $1 billion. Neither round has previously been reported. Benchmark declined to comment.

https://www.newcomer.co/p/scoop-benchmark-backs-early-stage

VC is such a meme lmao. What’s next, Sam gonna acquire the company? No product needed!

tonymet 12 minutes ago||
let's re-do the OS too. we only need about 10 syscalls. authorization is totally backwards (look how android runs a user per process).
astrodust 23 minutes ago||
Was about time we had another Transmeta.
Onavo 56 minutes ago||
Bet you they will turn into yet another ML accelerator company within the year.
qotgalaxy 50 minutes ago|
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