[shusaku]

If there really is enough market demand for this kind of processor, it seems like someone like NEC who still makes vector processors would be better poised than a startup rolling RISC-V

[damageboy]

I work in NS. The riscv was the "one more thing" aspect of the "reveal".

The main product/architecture discussed has nothing to do with vector processors or riscv.

It's a new, fundamentally different data-flow processor.

Hopefully we will improve in explaining what we do and why people may want to care.

[joha4270]

So, a Systolic Array[1] spiced up with a pinch of control flow and a side of compiler cleverness? At least that's the impression I get from the servethehome article linked upthead. I wasn't able to find non-marketing better-than-sliced-bread technical details from 3 minutes of poking at your website.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array

[slwvx]

Text on the front page of the NS website* leads me to think you have a fancy compiler: "Intelligent software-defined hardware acceleration". Sounds like Cerebras to my non-expert ears.

* https://www.nextsilicon.com

[pezezin]

NEC doesn't really make vector processors anymore. My company installed a new supercomputer built by NEC, and the hardware itself is actually Gigabyte servers running AMD Instinct MI300A, with NEC providing the installation, support, and other services.

https://www.nec.com/en/press/202411/global_20241113_02.html