Tachyum teases tenfold performance boost for CPU's

[TetraSky]

If this doesn't turn out to be vaporware, I'll be surprised.

It's not 86x anyway, so it won't matter to a large majority of us.

[Dash Lambda]

Unlikely.

[jagdtigger]

41 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

If this doesn't turn out to be vaporware, I'll be surprised.

It's not 86x anyway, so it won't matter to a large majority of us.

Many ppl said the same thing about arm...

[yian88]

This is probably only for neural networks, AI, and heavy parralel computations/algorithms.

There isnt anything with tenfold performance of serial multicore processors of today, in other words all our computers and software and games and everything has to be reprogrammed for those new chips with parralel algorithms from ground up, which is not going to happen.

There are already special processors for AI, machine learning etc with massive improvements vs regular CPU, so i cant see what these people are announcing exactly that they are doing what everyone else is doing ?

[ignaloidas]

Prob gonna be bought by intel and killed off tough.

[Master Disaster]

2 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

Many ppl said the same thing about arm...

I'm not sure they did, a few years after ARM was created Apple helped Acorn to refine and improve the architecture because they saw its potential. In the mid 90s (so around 10 years after release) Intel also did some prototyping of an ARM CPU (they acquired the rights to work done by StrongARM in a court settlement) too.

 

The appeal of the RISC Architecture was apparent to a lot of tech companies almost right from the get go.

 

Fun fact: ARMV6 was created almost entirely by Apple

[Bananasplit_00]

interesting, im hopefull but doubtfull. if i had to guess we will never ever hear the name again beyond maybe them being bought up or bankrupt

[Sniperfox47]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Intel also did some prototyping of an ARM CPU (they acquired the rights to work done by StrongARM in a court settlement) too.

Intel had a number of production ARM chips too in the late 90s/early 2000s. They were used for a number of WindowsCE devices, including the Motorola MC9090s that were popular among retailers.

[Zodiark1593]

5 hours ago, Swatson said:

x86 needs to die eventually anyways. x64 is useful as an extension but I really believe we need a new architecture going forward. If they can pull these performance gains out of their asses, I dont care if it's running on MIPS (OK maybe not, but you get my point)

Compatibility will always be an issue. If an architecture can achieve equivalent or better emulated x86-64 performance than the actual hardware, a transition would be more readily feasible.

 

Considering Cortex A73 achieves similar, if not faster performance than Atoms in x86 code, this doesn't seem an unrealistic goal.

[Bananasplit_00]

47 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Atoms

Press F for the Atom series  

[leadeater]

6 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

The appeal of the RISC Architecture was apparent to a lot of tech companies almost right from the get go.

IBM Power

[TechyBen]

6 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

I'm not sure they did, a few years after ARM was created Apple helped Acorn to refine and improve the architecture because they saw its potential. In the mid 90s (so around 10 years after release) Intel also did some prototyping of an ARM CPU (they acquired the rights to work done by StrongARM in a court settlement) too.

 

The appeal of the RISC Architecture was apparent to a lot of tech companies almost right from the get go.

 

Fun fact: ARMV6 was created almost entirely by Apple

Yep. "Vapourware" is very much not what ARM was. Having actual hardware on display, on sale, in products is very different from promising the world on a plate.

[Dylanc1500]

38 minutes ago, leadeater said:

IBM Power

The one no one could live without, but don't realize exists.

[Zodiark1593]

2 minutes ago, Dylanc1500 said:

The one no one could live without, but don't realize exists.

"Is using such a system for playing Netflix in guest room, thanks to the Wii."

[Dylanc1500]

2 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

"Is using such a system for playing Netflix in guest room, thanks to the Wii."

Lol not quite what I was referring to but that is a good point.

[Zodiark1593]

1 minute ago, Dylanc1500 said:

Lol not quite what I was referring to but that is a good point.

Well, to be fair, I knew full well that this isn't what you meant.

[Zodiark1593]

4 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Press F for the Atom series  

I've a couple Bay Trail systems in the house. For most tasks, they're fine, though they really seem to need some clocks to wake up. Even with the spinning platter drive, my Pentium J2900 (2.4 GHz Bay Trail) desktop is surprisingly snappy, though it is on Windows 7.

 

My other Atom system, the 1.4 GHz one, sometimes has it's hands full with Windows 10. Going into Task View with transparency on causes the system to break frame (fall below native framerate).

[Dylanc1500]

8 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Well, to be fair, I knew full well that this isn't what you meant.

Lol it's not always the easiest to tell.

[Zodiark1593]

Just now, Dylanc1500 said:

Lol it's not always the easiest to tell.

Though a giant server room filled with Wiis would be quite the amusing thought. 

[Okjoek]

14 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

ash techum

Ass-Touchyum

[MrDynamicMan]

22 hours ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Best. Name. Ever. "AND IN THIS CORNER WE HAVE... THE MACHINE!!!!"

Sounds like an Isaac Asimov reference.

[Ubleron]

Startup that did what tech giants like Intel and AMD could not, yeah, my ass.

[AncientNerd]

2 hours ago, Ubleron said:

Startup that did what tech giants like Intel and AMD could not, yeah, my ass.

Well it has happened before, but in most cases it's either vapor or the company is gobbled up by one of the bigger players before they can get very far with their solution.

[Dylanc1500]

14 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Though a giant server room filled with Wiis would be quite the amusing thought. 

Hey the U.S. Air Force was using a bunch of PS3s, so I wouldn't say it's unfathomable.

[Kamina]

Sounds like something Elon Musk would say.