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Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by up to 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding (www.techradar.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 96 points 5 months ago (13 children)

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.

[–] Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I get that we have to impress shareholders, but why can’t they just be honest and say it doubles CPU performance with the chance of even further improvement with software optimization. Doubling performance of the same hardware is still HUGE.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They... they did?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not in the title

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They didn't write the title.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what "they" you're talking about, but I think it's clear I'm referring to the person responsible for writing the original title. Not OP and not the article author if the publisher is choosing the title.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And I think it's pretty clear I'm not. And it seems pretty clear the OP wasn't either.

So... are you just stating random things for the fuck of it, or did you have an actual reason for bringing up a non-sequitur?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Was it though?

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