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Just curious, what did you mean by this: If your architecture meets these requirements, I'll consider a physical implementation very seriously (because we coul
by alain94040 10y ago
Just curious, what did you mean by this:
If your architecture meets these requirements, I'll consider a physical implementation very seriously (because we could use that kind of thing), and if it works out, you'll get a chip
Fabbing someone else's idea sounds expensive. What did you have in mind?
- abainbridge 10y agoPeople put experimental digital blocks in ASICs all the time, it isn't necessarily that expensive. Its a bit like taking an extra pair of shoes on holiday - in general, I'm a bit concerned about reaching the airline's baggage weight limit. If you ask me to add your shoes to my bag before I start packing, I'm going to say no. If you ask at the end, and I've got some space left, then fine. However, he's probably talking about an FPGA implementation. That'd be sufficient to prove the concept. Once you've gone that far, you can normally do some simulations to predict the energy consumption on a real chip.
- _yosefk 10y agoI was at the time of writing and still am an accelerator architect and I'd gladly use someone's idea in a mass market product (ASIC) if they didn't mind. However, it is also true that working on any real product means that many valid ideas useful in some contexts will not be useful for me, and I guess this is true for many ideas for speeding up higher-level programming models, and perhaps it was misleading of me to fail to point this out. (As I said I don't love the tone of that article, it is unfortunately very effective as my articles written in that tone around 2008 tend to resurface more often than articles written in nicer, more balanced tone and with way more technical details from around say 2012-2013. What is my takeoff wrt future writing I'm still not quite sure.)