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The commenter above is correct: just stop toggling HW. We already do this to a great extent; we’re limited in the number of custom implementations because we ca
by thechao 5y ago
The commenter above is correct: just stop toggling HW. We already do this to a great extent; we’re limited in the number of custom implementations because we can’t wire everything together. 3D chips will have a lot more “dark” logic than current chips, but will be orders-of-magnitude more efficient (& thus powerful) due to deep customization.
Also, remember the argument of my timeline is ~50–80 years out from now.
- nradov 5y agoDark logic isn't doing any useful work so what's the point? Sure you can include specialized circuitry for a bunch of rare cases, but that won't lift overall system performance much and will kill manufacturing yields.
- thechao 5y agoThe GPU in your computer consists of mostly-dark highly specialized circuits; it certainly seems to improve my computing experience.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoThis is totally wishfull thinking. Customised logix means customised code. The GPU has an h265 and h264 hardware video encoder that has no support on Mac and ia a bitch to get working on linux. Most software doesn't support it most software does not support GPU compute either, and we had that for a decade now. Fuck, we had SIMD in every CPU for like 30 years, and out of 50 most popular programming languages how many even support it? 5?