Hello, performance 2.0.
Hello, Parallel Processing Unit.
For decades, CPU progress was incremental, leading to the computing performance bottleneck of today. Yet the demand for greater processing power, fuelled by advancements in AI, edge computing, and cloud technologies, has never been more urgent.
Breaking through the bottleneck is Flow Computing’s Parallel Performance Unit (PPU) architecture—a truly groundbreaking enhancement that delivers up to a 100X performance boost to any CPU in any architecture. Fully backwards compatible, Flow's technology even doubles the performance of most legacy applications after recompiling.
Flow’s PPU architecture not only meets but exceeds today’s demand for speed and efficiency, ushering in a new era of supercharged CPUs.
The SuperCPU era is here
Flow Computing delivers next-generation performance for the most demanding applications, from locally-hosted AI to general-purpose parallel computing.
Capable integration into any current or pending design architecture or process geometry, Flow provides revolutionary 100-fold acceleration—immediately usable in any future CPU. Flow ushers in the next era of CPU throughput, eliminating the need for expensive GPU acceleration of CPU instructions.
The dramatic performance increase is driven by our patented Parallel Processing Unit architecture and versatile compiler ecosystem. Together they allow developers to balance the raw performance needed for new applications with the need for compatibility with legacy code.
Beyond individual devices, Flow’s innovative architecture significantly enhances the capabilities of embedded systems and data centers. It finds applications across a range of settings, including edge and cloud computing, AI clouds, multimedia processing over 5G/6G networks, autonomous vehicle systems, and military-grade computing, setting a new benchmark for CPU performance.
Highlights from press coverage
23/09/24
Startup Says It Can Make a 100x Faster CPU Flow Computing aims to boost central processing units with their ‘parallel processing units’
In an era of fast-evolving AI accelerators, general purpose CPUs don’t get a lot of love. “If you look at the CPU generation by generation, you see incremental improvements,” says Finland-based Flow Computing.
Read more13/08/24
CPU Performance Bottlenecks Limit Parallel Processing Speedups
Semiconductor Engineering's Bryon Moyer analyses how hardware optimizations and well-thought-out software architectures can help CPU performance bottlenecks that are currently limiting potential parallel processing speedups.
Read more11/06/24
Flow PPU Promises to Accelerate Threaded Code 100x
New startup Flow Computing is developing technology with a parallel-processing unit (PPU) and compiler to speed up CPU code 100-fold. Based on research from the University of Eastern Finland and continued at VTT Technical Research Center, it aims to counter slowing CPU improvements while maintaining compatibility.
Read more19/06/24
'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
Finnish startup Flow Computing says it has developed a chip that can potentially double CPU performance and increase it by up to 100x with further software optimization, something TechCrunch describes “as one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering.”
Read more11/06/24
Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease
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.
Read more11/06/24
Flow Computing raises $4.3M to enable parallel processing to improve CPU performance by 100X
Flow Computing is a pioneer in licensing on-die ultra-high-performance parallel computing solutions to CPU vendors of all architectures. And today the company is emerging from stealth with a funding round of $4.3 million from Nordic investors and businesses.
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