Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU
by mrandish on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:48AM
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The chip might be great but they really need to rework their overview blurb. I'm no CPU designer but even I know every single thing they mention like it's bold, new 'think different' stuff, hasn't been a 'new idea' since at least the 1990s. For example:
> Instead of starting from a sequential design, we’re building our processor to have thousands of cores operating in parallel. This requires moving beyond the notion of shared mutable memory and linear instruction sequences.
Hey! Sounds like Thinking Machines, that hot new startup out of MIT. Yeah, their Connection Machine was bleeding edge stuff... in 1983 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation). Look, I get that it's an overview but they need to at least hand-wave at something new and different before talking like it's new and different.
> Instead of starting from a sequential design, we’re building our processor to have thousands of cores operating in parallel. This requires moving beyond the notion of shared mutable memory and linear instruction sequences.
Hey! Sounds like Thinking Machines, that hot new startup out of MIT. Yeah, their Connection Machine was bleeding edge stuff... in 1983 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation). Look, I get that it's an overview but they need to at least hand-wave at something new and different before talking like it's new and different.