By: Kira (kirsc.delete@this.aeterna.ru), October 23, 2014 2:48 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto.delete@this.gmail.com) on October 23, 2014 2:09 pm wrote:
> Symmetry (someone.delete@this.somewhere.com) on October 23, 2014 12:54 pm wrote:
> > Anyone have any thoughts on this press release? Apparently they just came out of
> > stealth mode. Mostly it's marketing but I'm hoping someone can tie it to a research
> > paper that can give more details about what the heck they're really doing.
> >
> > http://www.softmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SoftMachinesLaunchPR.pdf
>
> Their presentation is awfully short on details. There's lots of claims of relative IPC improvements
> but not a single word about clock or absolute performance. That's suspicious at best.
SemiAccurate has numbers for it running an EEMBC benchmark, with the 350MHz VISC outperforming a 1GHz Haswell by about 20%.
> Symmetry (someone.delete@this.somewhere.com) on October 23, 2014 12:54 pm wrote:
> > Anyone have any thoughts on this press release? Apparently they just came out of
> > stealth mode. Mostly it's marketing but I'm hoping someone can tie it to a research
> > paper that can give more details about what the heck they're really doing.
> >
> > http://www.softmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SoftMachinesLaunchPR.pdf
>
> Their presentation is awfully short on details. There's lots of claims of relative IPC improvements
> but not a single word about clock or absolute performance. That's suspicious at best.
SemiAccurate has numbers for it running an EEMBC benchmark, with the 350MHz VISC outperforming a 1GHz Haswell by about 20%.