Am 10.01.2018 um 20:00 schrieb Michael B. Smith:
It might put a dent in chip sales once they announce a chip which has
been fixed.
Nobody will want that chip. Would be too slow.
Go a step back and look at the whole picture. A few years ago the chip
designers hit a barrier of physics (with 3 GHz signals travel at light
speed just about the size of a chip). They are stuck there since then.
Look at the car industry to see what happens in such a case. They also
hit a barrier of physics, when trying to further improve the efficienty
of the carnot cycle, aka internal combustion engine.
What are both doing in this unsolvable dilemma? They invest billions to
try to squeeze a little bit more out here and there and everywhere. And
in doing so they completely ignore all problems which this unevitably
causes in other places. Same basic problem, same kind of approach.
Except the car industry now has a solution, and the chip industry has
not. Oh well they have: 100 CPUs instead of one. But software developers
can still not handle this, except in some trivial corner cases.
