By: TOP500 Team

A startup founded by two teenagers is designing a parallel processor that it hopes delivers a 10x leap in performance per watt for high-end systems. Rex Computing will make open source its instruction set architecture in hopes of rallying supporters around it.

The startup's ambitions are high, as explained by chief executive Thomas Sohmers, who recently became old enough to sign the company's contracts. He aims to create an alternative to today's processors and accelerators, which are too expensive (mainly in power consumption) to scale to the exaflop performance researchers hope to deliver in the next decade.

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