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Re:The Mill CPU Architecture – Threading [video] by CarVac on Monday December 11, 2017 @02:18PM (#15899485)
They are only talking as quickly as they can get patents filed. Once the patents are in place then they'll get to taping out, I presume.
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Re:The Mill CPU Architecture – Threading [video] by justin_vanw on Monday December 11, 2017 @07:41PM (#15902159)
Filing a patent takes about 2 months, they've been on this nonsense for 4 years or so.

Edit: 14 years...

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Re:The Mill CPU Architecture – Threading [video] by kinghajj on Monday December 11, 2017 @08:02PM (#15902246)
IIRC, they had something on the order of ~50 patents, which they only started on 3-4 years ago. The first 10 years of the project were entirely spent on thinking up of the new, patentable ideas that go into the thing. As Ivan says, you can't put a schedule on insights--they happen when they happen.
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Re:The Mill CPU Architecture – Threading [video] by rcxdude on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @12:16PM (#15907327)
Not to mention this is still basically a spare time project for all of them.
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Re:The Mill CPU Architecture – Threading [video] by justin_vanw on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:22PM (#15927195)
Well I guess I'll wait another 14 years before I comment again. I'm sure you'll all still be here pretending this is a real thing.
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