The actual title of the article is: "Hadi Esmaeilzadeh on Dark Silicon". The first question of the interviewer is where the (misleading) HN title comes from:

The actual title of the article is: "Hadi Esmaeilzadeh on Dark Silicon". The first question of the interviewer is where the (misleading) HN title comes from: Luke Muehlhauser: Could you please explain for our readers what “dark silicon” is, and why it poses a threat to the historical exponential trend in computing performance growth? The most interesting part was that to combat this lack of general-purpose performance increase, specialised computing units, fpgas, and Neural Processing Units (NPUs) have been proposed. Linked paper on npus: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hadi/doc/paper/2013-toppicks-npu.pdf http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hadi/doc/paper/2013-toppicks-npu.p... . Linked paper on "an architectural framework from the ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) to the microarchitecture, which conventional processors can use to trade accuracy for efficiency." http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hadi/doc/paper/2012-asplos-truffle.pdf http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hadi/doc/paper/2012-asplos-truffle...