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This startup wants to kill the CPU and GPU in one go

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The startup is Tachyum and they're based out of eastern europe. Here's their webpage: http://www.tachyum.com

I really hate clickbait styled article titles on HN.

Bold claims. Either this company will be bogged down in patent lawsuits for decades or they'll be acquired if there is even a hint of them being genuine. Doubly so if they have the in house patents to defend themselves. Reading between the lines suggests acquisition is the goal. Ramping up production is going to take lots of investor cash, which they may not actually have. I hear Intel is getting mildly panicky about their loss of relevance ...

So what do the experts think about the Tachyum founder's claims, like that the chip is far faster because there are far fewer, and far shorter wires between the transistors. Does this make sense?

Shorter interconnects do make for quicker signalling, and the transistor count on a single core of an i7 is high because of all of the pipelines and lookup tables and all the things that make an i7 much more performant than an i486 would be at the same clock speed.

So no. Fewer transistors alone doesn't make computation faster.

Now, with those shorter interconnects, if they can get the CPU clock up to something like 10GHz then maybe they have something. Sort of. They still need to be able to talk to RAM quickly and so long as that is not on the same die as the CPU it will not be a fast communication bus. Not 10GHz anyway.

This guy doesn’t have confidence issues.

Q> Why can Tachyum succeed where larger organizations have failed?

A> I would have to say it is due to my technical instincts born from hard won experience, along with learning from others’ mistakes, and disciplining myself to work only on important challenges. Even in large companies such as Intel and NVIDIA, the real innovation usually springs from a small group of innovators. At SandForce which I founded, my competitors were Intel, Samsung, Toshiba, Sandisk, Micron, Western Digital, LSI, Seagate, and many others with 1000s [of] engineers, and with less than 100 employees we won.

These guys have been around for a while:

http://icubecorp.com/products/

I'm waiting for NVidia to do away with the MB, CPU and memory.

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