Alan, Your posting ignited an intense feeling of deja vu. After posting, presenting at conferences, etc., about how to construct general purpose fault-tolerant wafer-scale computers, now THIS, that shows every evidence of having "missed the message".
Transport back to the 1960s/1970s, when I and others were promoting various proposals for the first monolithic microprocessor. My design for a serial architecture using bipolar technology could have been built years earlier. The design Intel adopted was by FAR the worst of the lot, because it had been selected for "political" reasons. It is possible to build super-reliable processors from unreliable components - but this is SO counterintuitive that few can wrap their heads around it. And, yes, there is even a way to recognize and survive in-process component failures - as Tandem Computers implemented. Once past that, you can put the pieces together using configurable logic - to make almost ANYTHING, rather than being stuck with a fixed architecture - like 400k tiny processors. Most AI is adaptable to data-chaining, which can be done MUCH faster than on conventional processors. I fear these guys will further blacken the prospects for useful wafer scale devices - a process started at Trilogy. Depressing... Steve ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Taefa5aa6c0a39ae4-M3f098347cbca91f6b8a765f7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
