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> Is there a [post-Moore] plan, or is it an existential wall? Fixed function hardware and more emphasis on efficient software. We've had decades of software l
by ethbro 8y ago
> Is there a [post-Moore] plan, or is it an existential wall?
Fixed function hardware and more emphasis on efficient software.
We've had decades of software laziness, because anything less than an order of magnitude performance improvement on the software side was best shipped unoptimized, earlier, and just wait for hardware process shrinks.
We'll likely get back to something like the 60s, before the mass-marketing of the PC enabled funding of the relentless process improvements of the 80s, 90s, and 00s.
- ianai 8y agoI’m still wondering whether gallium chips will ever make sense as replacement for silicon in cpus.