Well-known commercial examples include Tensor Cores on NVIDIA GPUs, Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) on Google Cloud servers, Neural Engines on Apple iPhones, and Edge TPUs on Google Pixel phones.

But in its Storm-1 architecture, Stream Processors narrows the focus to make parallel-processing hardware and software design significantly easier (Fig. 1).

Flow’s groundbreaking new architecture, referred to as a Parallel Processing Unit (PPU), boosts the CPU performance up to 100-fold through PPU integrated on-die through a license from Flow.