Moore’s Law, speeding along
Bayesian processors are here (in 2013)!
Lyric Semiconductor, a spinout from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced on Tuesday a new approach to a technology called “probability processing” …
Conventional processors are based on Boolean logic, whose bits have only two possible values. These are represented in various ways, one being “on” and “off.” In data processing, these values are zeroes and ones. Boolean logic gates perform operations on these bits sequentially.
However, this sequential processing is sometimes imperfectly suited for applications such as search, fraud detection, spam filtering, financial modeling and genome sequence analysis, which require simultaneously considering several possibilities and deciding on the best answer …
Lyric is also working on the GP5 — a general-purpose programmable probability processing platform. This will calculate probabilities for all types of applications and could enable performance gains of 1,000 times over x-86-based processors.
