Lyric Semiconductor has launched a new technology called probability processing, which provides a fundamental change in processing performance and power consumption.
The company said that the Lyric Error Correction (LEC) for flash memory, an application of probability processing, offers a 30X smaller in size and a 12X improvement in power consumption.
Lyric Semiconductor CEO and co-founder Ben Vigoda said that the company is currently focused on a modest list of both short and long-term applications that will see enormous gains in performance.
"We are starting with Lyric Error Correction but ultimately plan to develop a more general purpose probability processor that will truly change the landscape for many applications," Vigoda said.
Lyric Semiconductor said that it is developing the GP5, a general-purpose programmable probability processing platform, that can be used to calculate probabilities for all types of applications from web searches to genome sequencing.
The GP5 will run code written in Lyric’s own probability programming language called Probability Synthesis to Bayesian Logic.
