by jar » Mon Jun 20, 2016 4:21 am
I've noticed a couple articles pop up recently. At the risk of being labelled a pedant, the "KiloCore" chip isn't the first one-thousand core chip. At least PEZY-SC beat them to that, I believe. Maybe others.
Regardless of the title, it looks like interesting work. It's low power for sorting data. It's hard to draw conclusions about other applications.
For those of you that think Epiphany is too easy to program, this may be the architecture for you! It has 128x35-bit (or is it 40-bit?) instructions. And 256x16-bit (512 bytes) data scratch memory. Plus some on-chip 64 kB banks of SRAM outside of the cores.
