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Beside inspiring the shit out of me I have no idea. You have to trust a tad my internal feeling for beauty. If I could I'd ask Moore directly, he surely had very practical applications since he created Forth chips (I remember CAD and VLSI projects).

That's the thing with these guys, you're never sure if they're insane or just that the world doesn't tune enough to their ideas.

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It seems like an systolic array architecture using Forth processors as the processing nodes. Good for some things like neural networks like Google is doing with their own chips. There is also Parallela which was on Kickstarter. But I'm not sure if Moore is doing anything fundamentally new unless their compiler can automatically convert a conventional program into systolic array form?

Moore is also quite old (80), I'm even worried about his passing from time to time. So I suppose he's not doing much ambitious things but enjoying himself.

Parallela has managed to conduct a very succesful KickStarter. They've been under the radar since but still active, they published new plans for 1000 core coprocessor array. And I suppose, now they've proved themselves alone, they won't stop soon.

You might want to check out "A Systolic Array Optimizing Compiler" -> https://books.google.com/books?id=6nTjBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA188&ots...

Systolic array/vector processors have been used since the late 60's for neural and other gemm heavy workloads. The Warp architecture from CMU is an excellent example.

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