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by kvemkon 382 days ago
I'm wondering, why there are still no announcements for hardware support of such approaches in CPUs.
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vanderZwan 382 days ago
Gustavson's last presentation starts with him holding an actual piece of hardware supporting posits, fwiw.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vzVlQhaAZtQ

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kvemkon 368 days ago
Wow, great! Thanks for pointing this out.

Just found an announcement:

Calligo secures funds to scale POSIT-based chip development (07.04.2025)

https://www.verdict.co.uk/calligo-secures-funds/

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neepi 382 days ago
HP had proper deterministic decimal arithmetic since the 1970s.
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teleforce 376 days ago
Any link to that?
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