NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to Intel, AMD

Re:NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to In... by shrubble on Sunday October 26, 2025 @01:47AM (#45709443)

Curious if the architecture is similar to what is called “systolic” as in the Anton series of supercomputers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)

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Re:NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to In... by le-mark on Sunday October 26, 2025 @09:54AM (#45711899)

I spent a lot of time on systolic arrays to compute crypto currency POW (Blake 2 specifically). It’s an interesting problem and I learned a lot but made no progress. I’ve often wondered if anyone has done the same?

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Re:NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to In... by imtringued on Sunday October 26, 2025 @03:17PM (#45714458)

You should check out AMD's NPU architecture.

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Re:NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to In... by fentonc on Sunday October 26, 2025 @02:15PM (#45713999)

I was an architect on the Anton 2 and 3 machines - the systolic arrays that computed pairwise interactions were a significant component of the chips, but there were also an enormous number of fairly normal looking general-purpose (32-bit / 4-way SIMD) processor cores that we just programmed with C++.

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Re:NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to In... by damageboy on Sunday October 26, 2025 @02:39PM (#45714184)

Not really. I work for NextSilicon. It's a data-flow oriented design. We will eventually have more details available that gradually explain this.

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