top | item 40401392 Startup aims to make CPUs 100x more energy efficient with 'reconfigurable' chips 7 points| reindeerer | 1 year ago |tomshardware.com 1 comment order hn newest atiedebee|1 year ago One cannot simply claim a 100x efficiency improvement without providing any numbers and expect people to just believe it.The only thing pointing towards the efficiency improvement from what I can tell is the absence of backwards compatibility that modern processors have.But doesn't ARM have that advantage too? Aarch64 isn't backwards compatible with Arm32 either.I'd genuinely love to see a showcase regarding the efficiency improvements and at which power draw these processors operate. unknown|1 year ago [deleted]
atiedebee|1 year ago One cannot simply claim a 100x efficiency improvement without providing any numbers and expect people to just believe it.The only thing pointing towards the efficiency improvement from what I can tell is the absence of backwards compatibility that modern processors have.But doesn't ARM have that advantage too? Aarch64 isn't backwards compatible with Arm32 either.I'd genuinely love to see a showcase regarding the efficiency improvements and at which power draw these processors operate.
atiedebee|1 year ago
The only thing pointing towards the efficiency improvement from what I can tell is the absence of backwards compatibility that modern processors have.
But doesn't ARM have that advantage too? Aarch64 isn't backwards compatible with Arm32 either.
I'd genuinely love to see a showcase regarding the efficiency improvements and at which power draw these processors operate.
unknown|1 year ago
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