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I would expect that once silicon stops shrinking and both chips and fabs can be allowed to pay for themselves over longer time horizons we're going to see a lot
by Symmetry 10y ago
I would expect that once silicon stops shrinking and both chips and fabs can be allowed to pay for themselves over longer time horizons we're going to see a lot more architectural experimentation.
- mmmBacon 10y agoI hope you're right. The costs of 7nm are so high that even the "big guys" are being very careful about what they do. It's become so expensive they just can't afford a miss in the market. I worry the high costs will stifle innovation and that we'll see something that's more like a tweak here and there for a while.
- ansible 10y agoOh, for sure that will happen. I like the Mill CPU design, and they're saying it will have a 10x power/performance advantage over traditional architectures. But we're just about done with the times where we had easy gains in price/performance/power by just moving to a smaller process node.