SambaNova wants to move away from Von Neumann machines

[HEXUS]

It has raised $450m to kick start a multi-decade shift in computing.

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[lumireleon]

the processor re-arranges its circuits, perhaps every clock cycle,....sounds like a programming nightmare

[Gentle Viking]

Quantum entanglement on a transistor basis. :-)

[3dcandy]

Imagine if Intel were in charge if this....

[DanceswithUnix]

Very odd, I thought AI acceleration was pretty much a done deal. So many people have already released product.

Being able to reconfigure at a gate level screams to me that this won't clock very high, in the same way that you can design a conventional processor and put it on a reconfigurable FPGA and probably get it to clock at 100MHz. Re-configuring a sea of gates takes time, energy and a lot of configuration data. The only way this makes sense to me is if they are re-configuring to embed the weights of a neural net into the silicon, and the configuration is part of a learning process. That would make for a screaming fast AI processor, but only for nets that are small enough to fit. Perhaps 3D stacking means they hope in the future to build arbitrarily large chips.

[[GSV]Trig]

Ummmm, call me sceptical but do they actually have any silicon?
Sounds like they're just saying this is whats going to happen in the next 20/30 years (which is a given with tech where it is now) and then managed to get $250m investment based on the guys past job history?

[Zak33]

Every stone needs turning, so that over the next 3 decades we actually move forward as fast as we already have.

the investor list is a who's who of "I want to knwo what you're up to"
"Blackrock, Google Ventures, Intel Capital, Walden International, WRVI Capital and Redline Capital"