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Startup claims 100x more efficient processor than current CPUs, secures $16M in funding
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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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So Intel, Apple, every other company that develops ARM based processors, AMD and Nvidia has just missed this technology ?
We're talking about trillions of dollars in just R'n'D investments and this technology just flew under the radar?
If it sounds too good to be true, it is probably too good to be true.
Usually means "yes this works in theory but only for very specific operations at limited scales that aren't all that important so it's not worth pursuing seriously"
Maybe. But the blue LED was also deemed impossible by a lot of big companies. And then a guy build one. Very interesting video on that topic: https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M
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I mean
Big companies tend to "innovate" by buying market-disrupting startups and squashing the life out of them so they wouldn't need to compete
It probably runs a completely custom instruction set which makes it incompatible with current architectures. Current manufacturers are designing chips that are operable with popular instruction sets.
I'd write it myself if it was a hundred times faster