Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by bpye 896 days ago
Xmos [0] still exists which, whilst not the same as the Transputer, does fabricate MCUs with hardware parallelism and a variant of C called xC with CSP primitives.

[0] - https://www.xmos.com/

2 comments

I'm using the XE216 (one of their chips) in an audio project and XC is a pleasure to program in.
Graphcore is a direct descendent as well. That's message passing with different tooling - easy-ish to use from machine learning frameworks, deeply confusing to program directly.