{"id":191163,"date":"2024-06-13T16:25:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T21:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/flow-claims-it-can-100x-any-cpus-power-with-its-companion-chip-and-some-elbow-grease"},"modified":"2024-06-13T16:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T21:25:54","slug":"flow-claims-it-can-100x-any-cpus-power-with-its-companion-chip-and-some-elbow-grease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/flow-claims-it-can-100x-any-cpus-power-with-its-companion-chip-and-some-elbow-grease","title":{"rendered":"Flow claims it can 100x any CPU\u2019s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flow-claims-it-can-100x-any-cpus-power-with-its-companion-chip-and-some-elbow-grease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Finnish startup called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flow-computing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flow Computing<\/a> is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion chip, any CPU can instantly double its performance, increasing to as much as 100x with software tweaks.<\/p>\n<p>If it works, it could help the industry keep up with the insatiable compute demand of AI makers.<\/p>\n<p>Flow is a spinout of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vttresearch.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VTT<\/a>, a Finland state-backed research organization that\u2019s a bit like a national lab. The chip technology it\u2019s commercializing, which it has branded the Parallel Processing Unit, is the result of research performed at that lab (though VTT is an investor, the IP is owned by Flow).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion chip, any CPU can instantly double its performance, increasing to as much as 100x with software tweaks. If it works, it could help the industry keep up with the insatiable compute demand [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}