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This "productive academic discussion" of the myriad benefits of the mill architecture has been repeated over and over again for at least 5 years, with very few

by twtw 8y ago

This "productive academic discussion" of the myriad benefits of the mill architecture has been repeated over and over again for at least 5 years, with very few new developments. There is great value to thinking about new and non traditional architectures, but discussion around this particular venture is pretty tired. I don't know that much more discussion is valuable at this point without some evidence.

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wtallis 8y ago
> has been repeated over and over again for at least 5 years, with very few new developments. The same is true of discussions of Intel's architectures; they've only released one new microarchitecture in the past 5 years. Hardware development is slow, even for the people who are already shipping silicon.
- sparkie 8y ago
  The difference is Intel have a proven track record of producing actual products. Mill Computing have not produced anything tangible yet. The strategy appears from the outside to be one of aggregating IP in the hope that they'll license it (like ARM) or will get acquired for some big amount. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm not expecting to be able to pick up a Mill CPU in the next 5 years. Maybe even 10.