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> AFACT, the only non-incremental innovations in CPU architecture these days is open source commoditization (the RISC-V approach) and taking VLIW to the extreme
by e12e 9y ago
> AFACT, the only non-incremental innovations in CPU architecture these days is open source commoditization (the RISC-V approach) and taking VLIW to the extreme (the Mill Computing approach).
I'm still fascinated by the approach of Green Arrays; 144 tiny (forth) cores that together can lift about as much as a "small" cpu, but can also idle at low power with only a few cores active...
But That might be "too new"?
http://www.greenarraychips.com/ http://www.greenarraychips.com/
- avocad 9y agoI also like the idea, but isn't it already tried with the transputer computer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer And since programming is still mostly just chaining actions together, maybe we are just not very good at using other paradigms.
- Dylan16807 9y agoIt's the same to an extent, but we're now in a world where chips are clocked 100x higher and we've squeezed dry the paradigm of making a serial core with faster and faster transistors.
- boomlinde 9y agoAn important difference from the Transputer is that it is an entirely asynchronous design that doesn't rely on a clock. It doesn't waste power idling just to distribute and keep a clock vibrating, unless you program it to do so.