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General purpose chips aren't going to disappear, not even slightly. They're just going to offload specific work to circuitry that it's best suited for. I regre
by tempguy9999 7y ago
General purpose chips aren't going to disappear, not even slightly. They're just going to offload specific work to circuitry that it's best suited for.
I regret we're about to hit the wall but I have long though that we're going to start moving back to analogue, and probabilistic algorithms, and in one way, having half-width floats is a step in that direction. I expect it to go further.
(All this is my opinion and may be wrong).
- tambourine_man 7y agoSure, but you might end up with computers for video editing, computers for DNA sequencing, etc. And we are already there for some workloads. AI and crypto mining come to mind. Regardless, buying a fast computer that could do anything was really fun.
- sgt101 7y agoI think you will see SOC's that have multiple specialised architectures, which will be lit up intelligently by the CPU depending on what the workload is.
- joquarky 7y ago> They're just going to offload specific work to circuitry that it's best suited for. Like the Amiga? That actually worked out pretty well. I look forward to it.
- tambourine_man 7y agoPow’s law at work here for me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law