Kira (kirsc.delete@this.aeterna.ru) on October 23, 2014 2:48 pm wrote:
> 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%.

Must be throughput. The table of IPC running SPECint2006 suggests single thread
performance is miserable. The Madison I2 got similar IPC at 1.6 GHz in 130 nm
as this thing gets running at 350 MHz in 28 nm. That suggests a highly threaded,
heavy throughput emphasis.