Posts by Andreas Olofsson

Ten Processor Myths Debunked by the Epiphany-IV 64-Core Microprocessor

Ten Processor Myths Debunked by the Epiphany-IV 64-Core Microprocessor

Introduction: The field of computer architecture is highly controversial with strong arguments on both sides of every major question: x86...

An Incomplete List of Parallel Processors Efforts

An Incomplete List of Parallel Processors Efforts

Introduction Over the years there has been an amazing number of of parallel computing efforts, will billions of dollars invested...

Putting a private cloud inside the smartphone

Putting a private cloud inside the smartphone

First of all, let’s officially state that the new Apple iPhone being announced does NOT have the Epiphany multicore architecture...

A Lean Fabless Semiconductor Startup Model

A Lean Fabless Semiconductor Startup Model

Introduction There is currently a general consensus among industry analysts, investors, and company executives that leading edge digital chip development...

A 1024-core 70 GFLOPS/W Floating Point Manycore Microprocessor

A 1024-core 70 GFLOPS/W Floating Point Manycore Microprocessor

(HPEC 2011): This paper describes the implementation of a software programmable floating point multicore architecture scalable to thousands of cores...

A 25 GFLOPS/Watt Software Programmable Floating Point Accelerator

A 25 GFLOPS/Watt Software Programmable Floating Point Accelerator

(HPEC 2010): This paper presents a hybrid approach to high performance embedded computing that uses FPGAs, general purpose processors and...