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Arm seems to do better than Intel. Perhaps an FPGA (using the term more broadly to include any field-reprogrammable logic array) can become more competitive pe
by sounds 15y ago
Arm seems to do better than Intel.
Perhaps an FPGA (using the term more broadly to include any field-reprogrammable logic array) can become more competitive performance/watt?
- jgw 15y agoThat can't really happen. FPGAs are just programmable ASICs. (Also, I'm not sure if you're suggesting that ARM cores are by their nature field-programmable. They're not, they're just IP cores that can be integrated into larger designs).
- Kliment 15y agoI think sounds is saying that a runtime-reconfigurable processor could be the next step forward, adapting itself to whatever task it has to do. I don't see much promise for speed improvements from this, but it is a cool idea.
- rbanffy 15y agoI am not talking about x86 vs. ARM. I am talking about computers that don't have CPUs connected through a bus to a single memory space. Someone else in this discussion mentioned the idea of fusing memristor memory with processing engines within the memory itself. That's the embryo of a very interesting idea - imagine hardware assisted memory deduplication, just to start.