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I think we are headed back that direction. Custom hardware is coming again. It's coming because we've hit walls on sequential compute. Multi-core parallel an
by ddingus 7y ago
I think we are headed back that direction.
Custom hardware is coming again. It's coming because we've hit walls on sequential compute. Multi-core parallel and concurrent models are building nicely, but software lags behind, and those problems are hard.
Some problems do not benefit from either of those things too.
Enter custom silicon.
The combination of software and well realized custom silicon to enhance performance, and that's peak performance.
Always is.
- snvzz 7y agoAmiga still teaching lessons, after almost 35 years.
- ddingus 7y agoAlso SGI A 250Mhz R5K O2 could map live video onto a changing surface in real time. Among lots of other spiffy, hardware enhanced things.
- iamnothere 7y agoAlso specialization into specific niches, with cool accessories, like the SBCs are doing. It's pretty exciting. I mean, Python on a chip is pretty amazing.
- ddingus 7y agoTotally. Smaller scale computing is a lot of fun right now.