Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agoFinnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by up to 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recodingwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down17
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkFinnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by up to 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recodingwww.techradar.comNemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 months agoPutting the claim instead of the reality in the headline is journalistic malpractice. 2x for free is still pretty great tho.
minus-squarebarsquid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 months agoJust 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.
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.