Today, developers have officially presented the architecture of Virtual Instruction Set Computing (VISC) and the results of tests of a prototype 32-bit VISC-processor. If we believe the internal tests Soft Machines, their development, even at the stage of the pilot project is 40% faster than 64-bit CPU Intel Haswell and up to two times ahead of some core ARM.
In general, the company promises to reach the level of consumption by a quarter or a third less than in the comparable performance to current processor architectures, or to provide a 2-fold or greater increase in performance at a comparable consumption. What is important, the developers promise full compatibility with today's software environment. Provided, of course, use your own software add-on VISC-processors.
The general principle of VISC architecture is simple enough. Average single-threaded application is partitioned hardware and software add-VISC virtual flows that are directed to the virtual computing cores. This makes the hardware VISC-planner, so delays are expected to be minimal. Thread performs the actual cores that have a dedicated connection for synchronization commands and data. In essence, this is a common parallelization of computational tasks, but with a shifting of the shoulders of programmers on a unique architecture. This is what puts the company Soft Machines - This implementation will work differently faster conventional virtual machine and make the work of writers programs easier.
Investors appreciated the initiative of a startup. The project is funded by companies such as Samsung, GlobalFoundries, AMD and personally a number of former senior Intel employees . Related Products :
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