20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
8:50 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:32:42 +0000 (UTC)
From: Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org>
Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Subject: Re: non-x86 multicore - Re: CPU monoculture
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Toby Thain wrote:
I dont think XMOS CPUs are in any way targeted at general purpose computing,
more at the FPGA/DSP/real time embedded control space...
Peter Wallace
What happened to Transmeta's technology?
Didn't sell well, company dead (last I heard). Market segment taken over by
intel Atom line.
And is XMOS going anywhere?
http://www.xmos.com/technology/architecture
http://www.xmos.com/technology/xcore
I'm very interested to learn if this or GreenArrays will take off, but I
suspect that unless they come up with use cases where this sort of
architecture is a must have, people will just keep on buying commodity x86_64
boxes...
Alexey