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Bob Colwell is awesome! I remember seeing an online talk he made... must be 25 years ago now. He talked about the development of the out of order architecture a
by Torkel 3y ago
Bob Colwell is awesome! I remember seeing an online talk he made... must be 25 years ago now. He talked about the development of the out of order architecture at Intel, and in general about engineering. He has some really fun anecdotes!
Honestly he is probably a big reason I switched majors from biotech over to computers, robotics and engineering in general... I even remember sending him an email about it and got a response back, wishing me good luck :) Sadly I can't find the email now, it was pre-gmail.
Some really good columns that he wrote for "Computer" magazine: https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/330/colwell/at_random.html https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/330/colwell/at_ra...
Highly recommend his book "Pentium Chronicles"
Edit: found the talk! It was ee380 at Stanford 2003/2004. Sadly the video links seem to be broken... https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ay0304.html https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ay0304.html
- KerrAvon 3y agoSecond "Pentium Chronicles." It can be a slog in parts if you're not _really_ into silicon validation, but the anecdotes are worth it.
- ghaff 3y agoHe was also at DARPA. There a presentation deck floating around from maybe 10 years ago--maybe HotChips--that, among other things, comes across to me as a rather pessimistic take on the petering out of CMOS process shrinks aka Moore's Law. His take was basically that, sure there are a bunch of other things you can do, but CMOS process shrinks have really been a unique thing in terms of achieving performance increases in the computer industry against which all else pales.
- lswswein 3y agoI believe this is the talk from hotchips: https://www.hpcwire.com/2014/05/28/planning-post-moores-law/ https://www.hpcwire.com/2014/05/28/planning-post-moores-law/