A Massively Parallel Computing Solution

The AP is essentially a silicon implementation of regular expressions, augmented with a relatively small number of Boolean gates and counters. It has many simple matching elements that can be connected together to create automata networks that advance in parallel. The output of a single automaton is a Boolean decision, indicating whether the automaton is in an accepting state or not. It is natively a MISD architecture, a rather dusty corner of Flynn's Taxonomy, because all active states receive the input symbol at the same time.

In contrast, FPGAs are much more general purpose and as a result have fewer individual processing elements. Indeed, an FPGA can be made to emulate the AP for small designs, but the AP is able to accommodate much larger (or more instances of) automata on one chip, resulting in much greater throughput or bandwidth, depending on the configuration.

It is fair to compare the AP to FPGAs in the context of problems that can be reduced to regex (augmented with digital logic and counters), but not in a general purpose sense. Just because a problem might reduce to regex and can be run on the AP, doesn't mean that it can be done so efficiently. But there a host of problem domains in pattern matching that do map efficiently to the AP.

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The biggest problem the tech behind this has always suffered ,is being able to convince DRAM manufacturers to manufacture using their technology.

This doesn't seem to have changed.

Perhaps the form factor will allow for far more dense clusters? and that its on dram boards, the cost for these is certainly low-ish.

AFAIK GPUs are floating-point centric, meaning you'd have to reimplement some functionality on top of FP. Plus it seems that each 'cell' can be it's own state machine, I also believe that GPUs are less fine-grained than that (you allocate clusters of units to compute a programmable shader).

Only the interface is the same (RAM bus) otherwise it's completely different, AP not having the CPU as we are used to.

Is there a legitimate reason not to use a password manager for personal use in scenarios such as these?