

Faster processors for solving NP-complete problems
Integrated Reasoning is headquartered in San Diego, CA.
Faster processors for solving NP-complete problems
NP-complete combinatorial optimization problems are computationally slow and create bottlenecks that affect nearly every business.
They design custom high-throughput processors (IRX-Honu) with a microarchitecture built specifically for the memory access patterns and instruction sequences of combinatorial optimization.
IRX-Honu is described as the world's first microarchitecture built expressly to remove combinatorial-optimization bottlenecks, and it solves the decision formulation of the subset sum problem 7,000x faster than state-of-the-art software.
Founded by David Cox and backed by Y Combinator; the company is building specialized processors tailored to Karp's 21 NP-complete problems.
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