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ok so I see that reducing fab size gives lot of benefits and they have steadily done so for past couple of decades. In doing so maybe they overlooked on design
by atomicnumber1 9y ago
ok so I see that reducing fab size gives lot of benefits and they have steadily done so for past couple of decades. In doing so maybe they overlooked on design or other factors? And now that we've hit the wall on fab sizes (purportedly), maybe they can double their efforts on other factors.
- T-A 9y agoThat reminds me of this talk from 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpgV6rCn5-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpgV6rCn5-g The gist of it, as I remember it, is that radical design ideas were a bad investment while Moore's law ruled, because they were likely to be outperformed by simply shrinking the standard architecture; after Moore, design gains in importance, but don't expect anything like the performance improvements of the past half century.
- atomicnumber1 9y agoMakes sense. Thanks for the video.
- ghettoimp 8y agoI think there really is quite a lot of innovation going on under the radar in the SoC space. Phones now have “neural engines” and all kinds of image-related processors for their cameras. Desktop CPUs come with integrated GPUs and there’s a lot of memory system consequences of that...