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As a person who is highly vested and interested in CPU space, especially embedded, I am HIGHLY skeptical of such claims. Somebody played TIS-100, remembered GA144 failed and decided to try their own. You know what can be a simple proof of your claims? No, not a press release. No, not a pitch deck or a youtube video. And NO, not even working silicon, you silly. A SIMPLE FUCKING ISA EMULATOR WITH A PROFILER. Instead we got bunch of whitepapers. Yeah, I call it 90% chance for total BS and vaporware

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There's >20 years of academic research behind dataflow architectures going back to TRIPS and MIT RAW. It's not literally a scam but the previous versions weren't practical and it's unlikely this version succeeds either. I agree that if the compiler was good they would release it and if they don't release it that's probably because it isn't good.

The 2022 PhD thesis linked from their web site includes a picture of what they claim was an actual chip made using a 22nm process. I understand that the commercial chip might be different, but it is possible that the measurements made for the thesis could be valid for their future products as well.

I like Ian but he’s rapidly losing credibility by postings so much sponsored content. Many of his videos and articles now are basically just press releases.

Especially the fact that he says the toolchain is now available for download (which lends credibility – if they're willing to share it so people can see the quality of output it produces), when in fact the website has no download links.

I was under the impression it was going to be available to download without registration, but the CEO pinged me to say it will be registration required. They've debated internally and this is the direction they want to go down.

This content wasn't sponsored. I spent time with the CEO and listened to his explanations, and did some digging of my own. I reported on the announcement and added in some of my own thoughts and opinions. I spent a decade doing exactly this at AnandTech, but now it's in video form (or on my substack).

So I'm not really sure where you're getting that feeling from. I've always done this. If I do sponsored content, it's listed as such.

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