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The writing was on the wall as early as the beginning of the Pentium 4 era. There was this assumption that clock speed would just continue to grow at the insan
by ashleyn 5y ago
The writing was on the wall as early as the beginning of the Pentium 4 era.
There was this assumption that clock speed would just continue to grow at the insane rates it did in the 80s and 90s, and then reality caught up when the Netburst architecture didn't scale well enough to avoid heat issues and crazy insane pipelines. When Intel rolled out the Core architecture, they went back to a P6-derived design, a microarchitecture that dated back to 1995 - effectively an admission that Netburst had failed.
- lostcolony 5y agoErlang was begun in 1986. It left the lab and was used for production products first in 1996. The Pentium 4 came out in 2000. So, an interesting aside, but not sure it's relevant to the parent comment.
- dleslie 5y agoAnd initial forays into many cores was decades earlier then that. Aside from big iron, going back to the early 60s, there was some business class devices like those made by Sequent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems