Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?
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Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?
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Re: Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?
#2The architecture diagram in the article resembles the approach Apple took in the design of their neural engine.
https://www.patentlyapple.com/2021/04/apple-reveals-a-multi-...
Typically these architectures are great for compute. How will it do on scalar tasks with a lot of branching? I doubt well.
Re: Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?
#3> Efficient’s goal is to approach the problem by static scheduling and control of the data flow - don’t buffer, but run. No caches, no out-of-order design, but it’s also not a VLIW or DSP design. It’s a general purpose processor.
Sounds like a mainframe. Is there any similarity?
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#4Is this the return if Itanium? static scheduling and pushing everything to the compiler it sounds like it.
Re: Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?
#5I don't know much about CPUs so maybe someone can clarify.
Is this effectively having a bunch of tiny processors on a single chip each with its own storage and compute?
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#6Is this the return if Itanium? static scheduling and pushing everything to the compiler it sounds like it.
It kinda sounds like it, though the article explicitly said it's not VLIW.
I've always felt like itanium was a great idea but came too soon and too poorly executed. It seemed like the majority of the commercial failure came down to friction from switching architecture and the inane pricing rather than the merits of the architecture itself. Basically intel being intel.
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#7This grid based architecture reminds me of a programming game from zactronics, TIS-100.
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#8reminds me from the architecture of transputers but on the same silicon
Re: Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?
#9Is this the return if Itanium? static scheduling and pushing everything to the compiler it sounds like it.
On the other hand, Groq seems pretty successful.
Re: Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?
#10Is this the return if Itanium? static scheduling and pushing everything to the compiler it sounds like it.
The Mill videos are worth watching again - there are variations on NaT handling and looping and branching etc that make DSPs much more general-purpose.
I don’t know how similar this Electron is, but the Mill explained how it could be done.
Edit: aha, found them! https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFls3Q5bBInj_FfNLrV7gGd...