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> “Something not many people are talking about is playing the temperature card,” Bronner says [...] "All the talk I hear is about stretching Moore’s Law in the
by JohnBooty 10y ago
> “Something not many people are talking about is playing the temperature card,” Bronner says [...] "All the talk I hear is about stretching Moore’s Law in the datacenter, such as using GPU accelerators. Those will work, but it’s a one-time shot. You use it once and you are done.”
But isn't "the temperature card" something you only get to play once as well? Once you've adopted supercooled computing, where do you go from there?
(This guy knows there's such a thing as absolute zero, and that you can't just keep getting colder, right?)
Sorry, I guess I still have antipathy towards Rambus since the 1990s. =)
- MichaelBurge 10y agoNot sure about the physics, but supercooled chips might use superconductors. Those would have zero resistance, and maybe that means they'll emit hardly any heat. And since modern chips are so heat-constrained, it would allow them to change the design entirely.
- mikeash 10y agoI don't think the "one-time shot" thing is meant to say that such measures are useless. It merely means that you'll have to find new techniques beyond that one if you want to keep improving performance afterwards. The "temperature card" could be one.