NextSilicon’s Maverick-2: the Future of High-Performance Computing?

A few months back, Sandia National Laboratories announced they had acquired a new supercomputer. It wasn’t the biggest, but it still offered in their eyes something unique. This particular supercomputer contains NextSilicon’s much-hyped Maverick-2 ‘dataflow accelerator’ chips.

⁉️Targeting the high-performance computing [HPC] market, these chips are claimed to hold a 10x advantage over the best GPU designs.⁉️

https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/not-the-largest-supercomputer-but-maybe-the-most-interesting/

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