'One of the wildest claims ever heard': Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding — and it might just be true
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Flow Computing's PPU optimizes CPU tasks
  • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This change is likened to expanding a CPU from a one-lane road to a multi-lane highway

    This analogy just pegged the bullshit meter so hard I almost died of eyeroll.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      5 months ago

      You’ve got to be careful with rolling your eyes, because the parallelism of the two eyes means that the eye roll can be twice as powerful ^1

      (1) If measured against the silly baseline of a single eyeroll

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Apparently the percentage of people actually understanding what they are doing in the management part of the industry is now too low to filter out even such bullshit.

  • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I highly doubt that unless they invented magic.

    Edit: oh… They ommitted the “up to” in the headline.

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    The TL;DR for the article is that the headline isn’t exactly true. At this moment in time their PPU can potentially double a CPU’s performance - the 100x claim comes with the caveat of “further software optimisation”.

    Tbh, I’m sceptical of the caveat. It feels like me telling someone I can only draw a stickman right now, but I could paint the Mona Lisa with some training.

    Of course that could happen, but it’s not very likely to - so I’ll believe it when I see it.

    Having said that they’re not wrong about CPU bottlenecks and the slowed rate of CPU performance improvements - so a doubling of performance would be huge in this current market.