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TWST: May we start with a short introduction to your company?
Mr. Bubb: Ambric is a fabless semiconductor company making a new class of
integrated circuit, which is a reconfigurable processor. This kind of chip uses
massive parallelism to achieve extremely high performance, and it does it in a
way that leverages conventional programming techniques so that it is easier to
program in parallel than ever before. TWST: Could you explain the concept of parallel processing and why it is
important?
Mr. Bubb: Over the last few years as the integrated circuit technologies have
advanced, we have all become familiar with the increasing power consumption of
PC processors. Many companies have been driving the clock speeds up into the
multi-gigahertz range, and every time that happens, the processors consume an
increasing amount of power. If they aren't aggressively cooled they would
literally catch on fire, they're so hot. What has happened recently is that chip
companies have been forced to adopt parallelism. Parallelism for conventional PC
processors has reached two cores, four cores, with roadmaps out to eight and 16
cores. What Ambric has done is taken it much further today. Our first chip has
360 processors. By going from simple multi-core parallelism to massive
parallelism, we can increase the compute power per watt dramatically.
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