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I think the other reality is that modern silicon increasingly adopts and blends aspects of many of these alternative architectures well enough that you can capt
by jandrewrogers 3y ago
I think the other reality is that modern silicon increasingly adopts and blends aspects of many of these alternative architectures well enough that you can capture much of the potential value without designing silicon dedicated to it.
This is the same pattern with how most modern programming languages are credible approximations of procedural, object-oriented, functional, etc programming models if you choose to use them that way. The flexibility and optionality created by not being dedicated to a single paradigm has its own value.
- jacquesm 3y agoYes, that scenario has played out many times now. Every time there is a viable specialist CPU on the horizon the useful bits get incorporated and the effort fails. The GPUs have been a bit of an exception to that rule probably because they did not seem to be a threat to the main CPU vendors but were seen as complimentary and their broader processing power was revealed only after they were solidly established through the gaming world.