Soft Machines debuts CPUs and SoCs based on VISC architecture
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When we last checked in with Soft Machines about a year ago, the company had just announced its VISC CPU architecture, along with some surprising performance claims. Today, the company presented some more details about the VISC architecture, along with a roadmap for VISC CPUs and SoCs, at the 2015 Linley Processor Conference. We spoke with Soft Machines founder and CTO Mohammad Abdallah and the company's VP of marketing and business development, Mark Casey, to learn more about these chips.
The VISC architecture
VISC CPUs are built around the concept of "virtual cores" and "virtual hardware threads." A middleware layer sits between the guest operating system and its targeted instruction ...