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Sounds kind of like the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell? It made an appearance in the PlayStation 3, but was supposed to be a more general high-performance architecture. At some point IBM sold blade servers with Cell processors.

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Is that a dataflow architecture?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_architecture

No, the Cell is a many-core architecture with a Power 'general' core and 6-8 'special purpose' vector processing units.

Yes. "Coarse-grain dataflow processor". It's like an FPGA. But LUTs are replaced with RISC-V cores.

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