Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 12/11/24 11:51 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 11/12/2024 16:43, John Ames wrote:

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:51:47 -0500
"186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
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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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I've long been of the opinion that things're gonna get Real Interesting
when Moore's Law finally his the wall and "throw a beefier rig at it!"
is no longer a viable pitch for any "your X isn't delivering Y fast
enough for project Z!" problems.
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We have already hit it.
 Hence the proliferation of multiple cores.
 Which works for multi-user and multi-threaded operations, but not necessarily for linear single thread code.

   Very correct.
   In some respects it's a "how do we DEFINE computing ?"
   sort of thing. A bunch of Nvidia chips doing "AI" is
   one way of looking at it. The peta+ FLOPS you may want
   to solve a supernova implosion or horrific math equation
   is another. In short 'performance' now has to take a cue
   from "What We WANT done" rather than the olde-tyme
   benchmarks.
   Not everything can be 'parallelized' either ... some
   jobs just require vast instructions-per ...
   As said elsewhere, 'pure photonic' tech MAY provide
   the ultimate - 10x to 100x what we're seeing with
   the low-nanometer transistor designs. But, in this
   universe, that's kinda IT.
   We need a new universe.