Stream Computing raises $4.3M to allow parallel processing to enhance CPU efficiency by 100X

Stream Computing is a pioneer in licensing on-die ultra-high-performance parallel computing options to CPU distributors of all architectures. And right this moment the corporate is rising from stealth with a funding spherical of $4.3 million from Nordic traders and companies.

The Helsinki firm claims it might probably obtain a 100-fold acceleration in computing energy for central processing items, or CPUs. To place that in context, this type of achieve simply doesn’t occur. Now you can make small positive aspects with semiconductor manufacturing, and small positive aspects with chip design. However a 100-fold enhance often solely occurs throughout a decade or many many years.

Able to being built-in into any CPU design structure, instruction set or course of geometry, Stream supplies a revolutionary 100-fold acceleration that’s instantly usable in normal Von Neumann-based laptop designs to allow “CPU 2.0”-levels of throughput, the corporate stated.

“We firmly believe there have been only incremental improvements in CPU performance during the last few decades – in our opinion, this has led to a situation where the CPU has actually become the weakest link in computing due to its sub-optimal sequential architecture,” stated Timo Valtonen, cofounder and CEO of Stream Computing,” in a press release.

Stream additionally eliminates the necessity for costly graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration of CPU directions in performant functions, the corporate stated.

Valtonen added, “A new era in CPU performance has become a necessity in order to meet the continuously increasing demand for more computing performance, driven to large extent by needs in AI, as well as edge and cloud computing. Flow intends to lead the SuperCPU revolution through its radical new Parallel Performance Unit (PPU) architecture, enabling up to 100 times the performance of any CPU, regardless of architecture and with full backwards software compatibility.”

Stream’s groundbreaking new structure, known as a Parallel Processing Unit (PPU), boosts the CPU efficiency as much as 100-fold by PPU built-in on-die by a license from Stream. The PPU is totally backwards suitable with each current software program software for that CPU structure – current parallel performance in all current software program and functions may be drastically accelerated by recompilation for the PPU with none software program modifications required.

The extra PPU cores built-in on-die, the upper the efficiency enhance that shall be subsequently gained and Stream has optimized licenses for each main tier of CPU market software — cellular, PC and supercomputer.

Stream’s know-how can also be complementary in nature to everything of the gadget motherboard in addition to any peripheral boards – whereas it boosts the CPU, all different linked items (similar to matrix items, vector items, NPUs and GPUs) holistically profit from the efficiency of PPU and get a significant enhance from the now far-more-capable CPU, the corporate stated.

Stream is already in preliminary discussions with main semiconductor distributors from around the globe searching for the “Holy Grail” of next-generation CPU efficiency – extra technical particulars shall be publicly shared through the second half of 2024.

Collaborating entities in Stream’s pre-seed spherical embody Butterfly Ventures (lead VC), FOV Ventures, Sarsia, Stephen Industries, Superhero Capital and Enterprise Finland. As a spinout from the acclaimed VTT Technical Analysis Middle of Finland, VTT maintains an fairness stake in Stream Computing and all of the patented IP developed over a number of years throughout this era has been formally transferred to Stream.

“At VTT we are excited by the technical innovations of Flow Computing as Finland moves to become a world-leading exporter of cutting-edge semiconductor designs. They are providing a complete performance ecosystem to not only the CPU vendors, but the development communities that have coalesced around major CPU designs such as X86, Apple M-Series, Exynos, ARM and RISC-V. We are excited that Flow’s technology which has been developed at VTT is able to contribute in a significant way to the not just to Finnish and European computing ecosystem, but in the future of the whole computing industry!” stated Antti Vasara, CEO of VTT, in a press release.

“Every industry in tech continues to suffer due to the fact that the rate of CPU improvements has slowed over the last decade. Flow is the first major departure from this trend, offering multiples of performance instead of some percentage points and – in our opinion — Flow will have a broader impact on the baseline performance of the computing market than for example quantum computing in this decade,” stated stated Juho Risku, companion and cofounder of Butterfly Ventures, in a press release.

He added, “Despite the huge investments in AI, general purpose computing will dominate its cost and constrain its capability. Flow Computing is solving this problem by enabling the next generation of SuperCPUs to easily surpass current industry leaders such as the Apple M-series, Nvidia Grace, AMD Zen 5, Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X, Intel Lunar Lake, Arm Cortex X, Google Axion and Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100.”

Stream’s groundbreaking structure additionally turbocharges embedded methods and knowledge facilities, for makes use of similar to edge and cloud computing, AI clouds, multimedia codecs throughout 5G/6G, autonomous car methods, military-grade computing and extra.