[HN Gopher] 100x Faster CPUs from Finland's New Startup
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       100x Faster CPUs from Finland's New Startup
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-09-21 21:04 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | brotchie wrote:
       | "Now, the team is working on a compiler for their PPU" good luck!
        
       | yeahwhatever10 wrote:
       | When will we get the "Mill" cpu?
        
       | interroboink wrote:
       | Seems like a nice idea -- instead of the stark CPU/GPU divide we
       | have today, this would fit somewhere in the middle.
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       | Reminds me slightly of the Cell processor, with its dedicated
       | SPUs for fast processing, orchestrated by a traditional CPU. But
       | we all saw how successful that was (: And that had some pretty
       | big backing.
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       | Overcoming the inertia of the current computing hardware
       | landscape is such a huge task. Maybe they can find some niche(s).
        
       | gnabgib wrote:
       | Discussion (28 points, 3 months ago, 32 comments)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650662
        
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