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I will believe it when I see it. Incredible claims require incredible proof. However, if true it would see a return to the co-processor. you remember having a math co-processor back in the day? Also, for a while there was that company PhysX where you could get a physics accelerator card for your system but it never really got wide adoption.

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>A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion chip, any CPU can instantly double its performance, increasing to as much as 100x with software tweaks. If it works, it could help the industry keep up with the insatiable compute demand of AI makers. Flow is a spinout of VTT, a Finland state-backed research organization that's a bit like a national lab. The chip technology it's commercializing, which it has branded the Parallel Processing Unit, is the result of research performed at that lab (though VTT is an investor, the IP is owned by Flow). The claim, Flow is first to admit, is laughable on its face. You can't just magically squeeze extra performance out of CPUs across architectures and code bases. If so, Intel or AMD or whoever would have done it years ago. But Flow has been working on something that has been theoretically possible -- it's just that no one has been able to pull it off.

I will believe it when I see it. Incredible claims require incredible proof. However, if true it would see a return to the co-processor. @stupidbird you remember having a math co-processor back in the day? Also, for a while there was that company PhysX where you could get a physics accelerator card for your system but it never really got wide adoption. Archive: https://archive.today/cSRoc From the post: >>A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion chip, any CPU can instantly double its performance, increasing to as much as 100x with software tweaks. If it works, it could help the industry keep up with the insatiable compute demand of AI makers. Flow is a spinout of VTT, a Finland state-backed research organization that's a bit like a national lab. The chip technology it's commercializing, which it has branded the Parallel Processing Unit, is the result of research performed at that lab (though VTT is an investor, the IP is owned by Flow). The claim, Flow is first to admit, is laughable on its face. You can't just magically squeeze extra performance out of CPUs across architectures and code bases. If so, Intel or AMD or whoever would have done it years ago. But Flow has been working on something that has been theoretically possible -- it's just that no one has been able to pull it off.

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Maybe some increase, but not double for all CPUs. That's a retarded thing to claim, all CPUs. Maybe double for CPUs with little onboard cache, if that's what it's essentially doing is caching instructions. I think you could see a performance increase with this but I couldn't guess how much. I would think it would depend on the processor itself.

The 100x claim is relying entirely on the "with software tweaks" part...a LOT of modern software could be made to perform 100x with software tweaks alone. And by tweaks I mean writing it from nothing in Assembly or C.

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What, you don't want to include 60k lines of boiler plate so you can get a "dynamic" menu? How could that possibly impact performance /s