I think when they say "system" they mean "computing stack" from the gate-level up. You can't have a different simple on top of silicon that expects another type

I think when they say "system" they mean "computing stack" from the gate-level up. You can't have a different simple on top of silicon that expects another type of simple. It's too incompatible with the throughout increase that pipeline and the specific caching implementation give. Though I don't think Jonathon Blow is necessarily ignoring the underlying silicon expectations from the Livestream or two I've seen.