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by phendrenad2 1917 days ago
Interesting, here's the actual product specs: https://www.tachyum.com/assets/img/Datasheet-216.pdf
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bcrl 1917 days 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.
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zsmi 1916 days 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.

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aDfbrtVt 1917 days ago
No mention of process node or TDP...
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