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There is no 10% boost - it's fiction ADDED: With the millions spent on getting just a minor single digit improvement, you think the big players wouldn't jump
by FullyFunctional 5y ago
There is no 10% boost - it's fiction
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With the millions spent on getting just a minor single digit improvement, you think the big players wouldn't jump on clock-less immediately if they could? Note, Intel did use (does?) use domino logic in the ALU and FPU. The benefit just isn't there for clock-less. I personally know of companies that tried and gave up on it.
To your other points, you wouldn't boil the ocean; you keep everything else clocked as usual and bridge between them.
- blagie 5y agoI think there's a long graveyard of conceptually better architectures which died because people underestimated costs, from Transmeta, to all sorts of SIMD and MIMD systems, to VLIW. I agree it's not too expensive to prototype, but it's super-expensive to do *right*.