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Related to this is I watched a fairly recent talk by David May who worked on the implemention of the transputer in the late 80s together with Tony Hoare: https
by patterns 3y ago
Related to this is I watched a fairly recent talk by David May who worked on the implemention of the transputer in the late 80s together with Tony Hoare:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUWmHgLiyU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUWmHgLiyU
At the end of the talk, he mentions the staggering complexity of the design and manufacturing of chips with billions of transistors. We have long reached a point where nobody fully understands how the chips work. IIRC, only two companies can do the manufacturing.
That modern chips work at all almost seems like a miracle. Do we really need chips this complex?