lonetech

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   by lonetech 14y ago

   Video games is exactly where heterogenous computers like this have flourished. But they don't have a game to market it yet - historically it hasn't even mattered much if that initial game used the platform anywhere near well. How did the Ou
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   by lonetech 14y ago

   I've not had the time to read up on Xeon Phi, but compared to the Tilera, the Epiphany is a considerably simpler processor. There's no MMU in the cores, instead of caches there is direct DMA control, and the on-chip network extends past the
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   by lonetech 14y ago

   The FPGA is indeed doing the glue logic to the Epiphany, but that's only one of its functions; there's plenty of space left for other jobs, one of which is HDMI output. They do plan easy access to reprogram the FPGA, but since Xilinx synthe