This change is likened to expanding a CPU from a one-lane road to a multi-lane highway
This analogy just pegged the bullshit meter so hard I almost died of eyeroll.
Apparently the percentage of people actually understanding what they are doing in the management part of the industry is now too low to filter out even such bullshit.
You’ve got to be careful with rolling your eyes, because the parallelism of the two eyes means that the eye roll can be twice as powerful ^1
(1) If measured against the silly baseline of a single eyeroll
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The techradar article is terrible, the techcrunch article is better, the Flow website has some detail.
But overall I have to say I don’t believe them. You can’t just make threads independent if they logically have dependencies. Or just remove cache coherency latency by removing caches.
Can’t have cache latency if there is no cache!
🚨 ⚠ 🚨 Hoax alert! 🚨 ⚠ 🚨
You can download more ram too!
Gee its like all modern computers already have massively parallel processing devices built in.
Startup discovers what a northbridge is
I don’t care. Intel promised 5nm 10ghz single core processors by this point and I still want it out of principle
I highly doubt that unless they invented magic.
Edit: oh… They ommitted the “up to” in the headline.
Added it
I meant tech radar. Thanks
The TL;DR for the article is that the headline isn’t exactly true. At this moment in time their PPU can potentially double a CPU’s performance - the 100x claim comes with the caveat of “further software optimisation”.
Tbh, I’m sceptical of the caveat. It feels like me telling someone I can only draw a stickman right now, but I could paint the Mona Lisa with some training.
Of course that could happen, but it’s not very likely to - so I’ll believe it when I see it.
Having said that they’re not wrong about CPU bottlenecks and the slowed rate of CPU performance improvements - so a doubling of performance would be huge in this current market.
Putting the claim instead of the reality in the headline is journalistic malpractice. 2x for free is still pretty great tho.
Just finished the article, it’s not for free at all. Chips need to be designed to use it. I’m skeptical again. There’s no point IMO. Nobody wants to put the R&D into massively parallel CPUs when they can put that effort into GPUs.
Cybercriminals are creaming their jorts at the potential exploits this might open up.
Please, hackers wear cargo shorts and toe shoes sir
Oof. But yeah. Fair.
I want to go on record that sometimes I just wear sandals with socks.
