Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/10/24 8:38 AM, D wrote:

  On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

On 12/9/24 8:25 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 13:58:47 -0800, John Ames wrote:
 

Any chance of this conversation returning to anything even *slightly*
more relevant to *nix, computers in general, or, like, *anything* else?
Maybe I should dig up some old Francis E. Dec rant for a more coherent/
relevant refresher course...

 Feel free to start a thread.

   Ummmmm ... I just TRIED with the "Bit-Slice" topic.
 Jumped IMMEDIATELY back to 'non-OS/Computer stuff'  :-)
  Was HOPING for discussion/insight into 'alternative'
 schemes for 'CPU's and such derived from older solutions.
  Houston, we have a problem .............
 

 Your thread was perhaps not interesting enough? Try again! ;)

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 Awwww .... OUGHT to be an interesting topic, especially
 as we're bumping up against Moore's end-point. One or
 two more gens and we're literally at the atomic scale ;
 where to go from there ?

Quantum computing of course! Otherwise, we'll just continue to scale out I assume.
Is there an established Moores end point?
I would imagine once we hit that end point in terms of regular cpus, the only direction left would be purpose built cpus on other technologies for niche use cases such as biological computing, quantum computing, optical etc.
Could regular cpu:s get some extended life by a change of materials or some other tweaks to the current design?

 Better innovate SOMETHING, otherwise we're gonna see
 'peak computing' when it's become clear we need thousands
 of times that for the Really Cool Stuff.
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