Does anyone have more technical information about this? I tried googling but just found marketing babble. Also, turns out the headquarters for this place is a couple blocks away from me, haha.
It sounds like a cross between a traditional CPU + FPGA. The twist is that the FPGA portions can easily be reconfigured by simple instructions instead of having to do something complicated like running a CAD tool from Synopsys.
The right way to use them [FPGAs] , he decided, was to couple them so tightly to the microprocessor chip that it would appear they were simply a small set of additional instructions to give a programmer an easy way to turbocharge a program. Everything had to look exactly like the standard programming environment. In contrast, many supercomputers today require programmers to be “heroic.”
