A Finland-based firm is aiming to increase the performance of the central processing units (CPUs) used in computers by up to 100 times using what the company calls – parallel processing units ...

Finnish startup Flow Computing has emerged from stealth mode, having raised €4 million ($4.3m) in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Nordic venture capitalist firm Butterfly Ventures, with ...

Called a Parallel Processing Unit (PPU), the company claims the technology works by moving tasks into and out of the processor at speeds faster than has previously been possible.

The Massively Parallel Processor represented one of several approaches to the problem of processing data in parallel. Nearly all modern supercomputers use parallel processing, although not all follow ...

A new chip design company called Flow Computing claims to have developed a technology that can double the performance of any existing CPU by using a custom co-processor called a PPU (Parallel ...

Recent advancements in graphics processing unit (GPU) technology have enabled these algorithms to be implemented in software, leveraging the inherent parallelism of GPUs to accelerate the decoding ...