A US Startup is about to release a CPU that could threaten Intel AMD, and Nvidia

A US Startup is about to release a CPU that could threaten Intel AMD, and Nvidia(techradar.com)

13 points by bedros 5 years ago | 5 comments

Interesting, here's the actual product specs: https://www.tachyum.com/assets/img/Datasheet-216.pdf

bcrl 5 years ago | |

Looks 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 5 years ago | | |

The 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

The image on slide 7 looks almost exactly like this design (including the 8x8 core matrix)

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 5 years ago | |

No mention of process node or TDP...

lixtra 5 years ago |

While 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-collabor...