The TL;DR for the article is that the headline isn’t exactly true. At this moment in time their PPU can potentially double a CPU’s performance - the 100x claim comes with the caveat of “further software optimisation”.
Tbh, I’m sceptical of the caveat. It feels like me telling someone I can only draw a stickman right now, but I could paint the Mona Lisa with some training.
Of course that could happen, but it’s not very likely to - so I’ll believe it when I see it.
Having said that they’re not wrong about CPU bottlenecks and the slowed rate of CPU performance improvements - so a doubling of performance would be huge in this current market.
I highly doubt that unless they invented magic.
Edit: oh… They ommitted the “up to” in the headline.
Added it
I meant tech radar. Thanks
This change is likened to expanding a CPU from a one-lane road to a multi-lane highway
This analogy just pegged the bullshit meter so hard I almost died of eyeroll.
You’ve got to be careful with rolling your eyes, because the parallelism of the two eyes means that the eye roll can be twice as powerful ^1
(1) If measured against the silly baseline of a single eyeroll
Apparently the percentage of people actually understanding what they are doing in the management part of the industry is now too low to filter out even such bullshit.
