"Ubititum claims all of the transistors in its Universal Processor can be reused for everything; no “specialized cores” like those in CPUs and GPUs are required."
One has doubts, especially with only $3.7 million in funding so far.
I recall that Sun's MAJC processor had functional/instruction units that were generic - there weren't dedicated floating point or integer or simd units, they could all operate on any instruction.
If you mean about the Ubitium, then no - other than what's in the article.
If you mean more in depth about MAJC, then also no - I read an Ars Technica article around about it (and Itanium) around 25 years ago, when it came out and also the Wikipedia page.
I have no EE or CPU design background, I'd imagine most people would know far more than me. I just remembered the 'generic instruction unit' from MAJC and if this was something superficially similar but at the processor 'core' level.
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