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Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU by hingler36 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:20AM (#50450590)
New CPU architectures have lived and died by supporting existing software, with Rosetta on Apple Silicon being an example of it working and Itanium an example of it falling apart.

All the best to anyone trying to design a new paradigm of processor, but I'm interested to hear how they'll avoid the pitfalls of their predecessors.

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Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU by martiancookbook on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:38AM (#50450727)
I'm guessing it will be easier with all of these automated (LLM) porting efforts. Also, there can be a middle-ish ground like GPUs where only portions of the program are written in CUDA and exposed via some higher-level API.
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Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU by nojs on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:33AM (#50451356)
> how they'll avoid the pitfalls of their predecessors

It’s a reasonable bet that LLMs will make translation to other architectures effectively automatic. So that moat may completely disappear.

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