[HN Gopher] Rex Computing
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       Rex Computing
        
       Author : tambourine_man
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2024-05-29 17:18 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | skilled wrote:
       | This looks abandoned at first glance.
       | 
       | Maybe someone on HN has an update as to what happened to this
       | project?
        
         | tambourine_man wrote:
         | I just found the ideas interesting and the contrast to
         | Itanium's VLIW.
         | 
         | Maybe this was a better link:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki6jVXZM2XU
        
         | nickpsecurity wrote:
         | One of the founders said this when I asked about it:
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         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39438579
        
           | skilled wrote:
           | Great! Here is the podcast episode he mentions in the comment
           | you linked:
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           | https://microarch.club/episodes/10/
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           | > Thomas Sohmers joins to discuss dropping out of high school
           | at age 17 to start a chip company, lessons from the successes
           | and failures of past processor architectures, the history of
           | VLIW, and the new AI hardware appliances he and his team are
           | building at Positron AI.
        
             | guidoism wrote:
             | Way more interesting than this old zombie company is that
             | new podcast about cpu design. Cool!
        
         | aredox wrote:
         | Like the Mill CPU arch, looking for someone to buy the IP.
        
       | shae wrote:
       | This looks like the Cell CPU, how's it different?
        
         | tambourine_man wrote:
         | Thomas addresses this in one of these two, I can't remember
         | which, sorry:
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         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki6jVXZM2XU
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         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBeSjWkcKc
        
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