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To what end? What specific value add is a multicore processor to mom and pop that is not being addressed by an intel quad core? The only thing that moves unit
by aswanson 18y ago
To what end? What specific value add is a multicore processor to mom and pop that is not being addressed by an intel quad core? The only thing that moves units is applications. As far as the general user is concerned, the processor does not exist. And that is how it should be.
- Mapou 18y agoAre you kidding me? Once cheap massive parallelism becomes the norm, you're going to see amazing applications for the average person, especially intelligent programs. For examples, intelligent answering systems, voice recognition, handwriting recognition, face recognition, dog walker, housekeeping robots, portable language translators, self-driving vehicles, sentries, etc... The possibilities are endless.
- aswanson 18y agoAll of those things are already with us. The problem with those things are in the algorithm performance, not compute cycles.