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Compute

NextSilicon Takes Aim At CPUs And GPUs With “Maverick-2” Dataflow Engine

October 22, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

It has taken eight years and $303 million in seed and three rounds of venture funding, but NextSilicon is today delivering several incarnations of its 64-bit dataflow engine, called Maverick-2, which was revealed this time last year when the company dropped out of stealth mode. …

Compute

HPC Gets A Reconfigurable Dataflow Engine To Take On CPUs And GPUs

October 29, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

No matter how elegant and clever the design is for a compute engine, the difficulty and cost of moving existing – and sometimes very old – code from the device it currently runs on to that new compute engine is a very big barrier to adoption. …