Tendrils raises $30M to rebuild the general-purpose processor
What happened
On November 11, reports said Tendrils raised $30 million led by Benchmark, with Visionaries Club, the UK sovereign AI fund and FR8 among the participants, to rebuild the general-purpose processor. Its chip drops the sequential single-core design for thousands of cores running in parallel, paired with Vine, an open source language built for parallel-first architectures. The company says existing CPUs are held back by cache coherence protocols and reorder buffers, slowed from the design's starting point. The reports cover the funding and architecture direction only, with no chip delivery date or performance test results.
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- Hacker News front page$30M Raised to Redo the CPU
Tendrils 完成由 Benchmark 领投的 3000 万美元融资，用于重造通用处理器，Visionaries Club、英国主权 AI 基金、FR8 等参投。其芯片放弃顺序单核设计，改为数千核心并行运行，并配套开发面向并行优先架构的开源语言 Vine。公司称现有 CPU 受制于缓存一致性协议与重排序缓冲区，从起点就被拖慢。
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