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A new chip design company called Flow Computing claims to have developed a technology that can double the performance of any existing CPU by using a custom co-processor called a PPU (Parallel Processing Unit) to increase the efficiency with which a CPU can switch between tasks. And that’s just using hardware – Flow says that by updating software to leverage the capabilities of its co-processors, performance could be enhanced much, much more.
But Flow Computing isn’t selling PPUs to end users – the technology is meant to be integrated on the same silicon as a CPU, which means the company’s potential customers are chip makers who could license Flow’s designs for use in upcoming processors. For now, Flow has released some papers outlining how the technology is supposed to work and says it’s managed to get a proof of concept working with FPGAs. But it could be years before we see Flow’s designs show up in actual products you can use… assuming it ever makes the transition from concept to reality at all.
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.
Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease [TechCrunch]
Flow Computing is a startup that claims it can double the performance of any CPU by pairing it with a co-processor called a PPU (Parallel Processing Unit), or by as much as 100x with software updates. But it’s unclear if or when we’ll see the tech adopted or claims tested in the real world.
The best thing about Jabra’s new earbuds is the case [The Verge]
The new Jabra Elite 10 and Elite 8 Active Gen 2 true wireless earbuds come with a charging case that also works as a Bluetooth LE Audio transmitter: plug it into any wired audio source with a 3.5mm cable and stream to your earbuds.
June Feature Drop: New features and upgrades for the Pixel portfolio [Google]
Google is bringing its Gemini Nano AI model for on-device tasks to the Pixel 8 family including the Pixel 8a, as well as support for turning voice recording into summaries in the Recorder app, official support for video output over a USB-C cable on those phones, support for locating phones with the Find My Device network even when the battery is dead, and a few other new and updated features.
Raspberry Pi stock surges after London IPO [The Register]
I’m wary of any headlines that focus on how much stock prices fluctuate on day one, because that tells us very little about what the future holds. But it looks like some folks must have been excited to invest in the company that popularized the idea of inexpensive single-board computers that are now widely used for education, DIY and hacker-friendly projects, and industrial applications.
Eight 2.5G LAN barebone [FanlessTech]
It may have an aging Celeron 4305U dual-core processor based on Intel’s 8th-gen Core “Whiskey Lake” architecture, but this little computer is an inexpensive fanless system with eight 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports, which could make it an interesting platform for use as a router, firewall, or for other networking tasks. It’s available from Amazon for $168.
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