Supercomputer-on-a-chip goes live: single PCIe card packs more than 6k cores

This is the caliber of 'news' you get when you re-work and publish a company's press release nearly verbatim without concern for pesky things like asking questions, cross-referencing, or checking sources.

From the (air quotes) article...

> The chip's architecture integrates a high-speed mesh network fabric that provides substantial bandwidth and minimal latency communication among cores, important for applications that rely on synchronized operations across multiple threads. This efficient network integration manages interactions within the chip's core array and memory systems, ensuring optimal performance without the common bottlenecks.

If anyone can tell me what that means, as it relates to the reality we live in, I'm all ears.

Also from the 'article' as it were...

>InspireSemi also stresses Thunderbird I’s energy efficiency, a carryover from its initial design for energy-sensitive blockchain computing applications.

It's an AI Pump and Dump. It all makes sense now.

> RISC-V

> Raw performance: 24 TFLOPS (FP64)

> Energy efficiency: 50 GFLOPS/Watt (FP64)

[1] (If you try to select body text, the page reloads.)

An RTX 4090 does 1.3 TFLOPS (FP64) at TDP 450 W [2], so 3 GFLOPS/W. If so, this is substantially better, and built on a core that can use standard tooling. [edited]

They don't say how much money you can cram onto the board, or what the memory bandwidth is; just that it's a lot...

1. https://inspiresemi.com/#solutions

2. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4090.c3889

Hilarious auto-linking of this guy's name:

> Ron Van Dell, CEO of InspireSemi

The Dell link goes to their Dell tag page, where I doubt you'd find anything about Ron Van.

Xeon Phi 2 electric boogaloo?

Thunderbird? Really? AMD already used this name for a very noteworthy processor line.

A little bit of creativity in naming can go a long way.