Adapteva’s Epiphany Hopes to Bring Back the Math Coprocessor

(WIRED): Rarely have I seen a journalism fail like that surrounding the launch of Adapteva’s Epiphany IV tile-based coprocessor. I won’t name names, but at least one enthusiastic reporter already has a future Epiphany processor taking on Intel and ARM for the cloud server market; and most of the other coverage out there isn’t much of an improvement. Let’s take a look at what Epiphany actually is, and (even more importantly) what it isn’t. Full Article