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02/07/24
Flow Computing's PPU Claims to Boost CPU Power by 100x
Considering that CPUs are now often the bottleneck in computational applications, researchers and engineers alike continue to look for new ways to improve their capabilities, and a new startup believes it may have the solution in what it calls a Parallel Processing Unit.
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 more18/06/24
Flow Computing Deep Dive: Dr. Martti Forsell's White Paper Explores the "Design Goals, Advantages, and Benefits" of Revolutionary PPU Technology
We're excited to share a deeper look into the technology behind our groundbreaking Parallel Processing Unit (PPU). Dr. Martti Forsell, our CTO and Chief Architect, together with our tech team has authored a comprehensive white paper titled "Design Goals, Advantages, and Benefits of Flow Computing".
Read more13/06/24
'The CPU is the weakest link in computing'—Flow says it can boost CPU performance up to 100x with its proprietary companion chip
CPU design is experiencing a shake-up with NPUs and new chip construction techniques. Flow Computing has an even more radical idea: a co-processor architecture that boosts regular CPUs. It claims up to a 100x performance increase with software optimizations, offering a helping hand to traditional CPUs.
Read more11/06/24
Flow Computing Emerges from Stealth with Licensable, On-Die Parallel Processing Enabling 100X Improved Performance For Any CPU Architecture
Capable of Full Backwards Compatibility with Existing Software Designed for Servers, Mobile Devices or PCs, The “SuperCPU” Era Dawns to Outperform State-of-the-Art CPUs such as Apple’s M-series and Others; €4M in Nordic Pre-Seed Funding Currently in Place from Oversubscribed Round
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.
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 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 more02/05/24
Performance and Programmability Comparison of the Thick Control Flow Architecture and Current Multicore Processors
The performance and programmability comparison of Flow’s F16 vs. Intel Skylake Core i7 and Xeon W processors assuming the same clock rate.
Read more02/05/24
Realizing multioperations and multiprefixes in Thick Control Flow processors
Implementation and performance evaluation of multioperations and multiprefixes in Flow’s processors. We showed that the multioperations can asymptotically speed up execution of certain N data element algorithms by a factor of log N.
Read more02/05/24
Preliminary Performance and Memory Access Scalability Study of Thick Control Flow Processors
The performance and memory access programmability comparison of Flow’s F4, F16, F64 and F256 vs. Intel Skylake Core i7 and Xeon W processors assuming the same clock rate.
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