2009/6/10 David Fotland <[email protected]>: > I think we will get another 64x to 256 x density then it will stop, for > single chips. We should eventually get desktop machines with thousands of > cores, but probably never with millions of cores. There really are limits > built into physics L >
How about the cores becoming much smaller and simpler? Intel's CPUs are approaching a billion transistors on a chip. But you can probably make a very decent and fast CPU with just a million transistors. Maybe double that number to give each a bit of cache memory. If you can see computers with thousands of cores, does that already assume they'll be simpler? Or could we have a few (hundred) heavy-duty CPUs like today's for multi-purpose use and a card with a million simpler CPUs on them next to it for tasks suitable for parallel processing? A hybrid system if you will. Just thinking out loud, I'm obviously a layman when it comes to semiconductors. Mark _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
