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Re:Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs by pavlov on Sunday March 10, 2024 @04:16PM (#39662224)
Sounds kind of like the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell? It made an appearance in the PlayStation 3, but was supposed to be a more general high-performance architecture. At some point IBM sold blade servers with Cell processors.
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Re:Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs by amelius on Sunday March 10, 2024 @06:26PM (#39663020)
Is that a dataflow architecture?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_architecture

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Re:Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs by yvdriess on Sunday March 10, 2024 @07:34PM (#39663390)
No, the Cell is a many-core architecture with a Power 'general' core and 6-8 'special purpose' vector processing units.
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Re:Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs by marty1885 on Monday March 11, 2024 @05:04AM (#39666005)
Yes. "Coarse-grain dataflow processor". It's like an FPGA. But LUTs are replaced with RISC-V cores.
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