I think it'd be great to have an extremely simple integer operation cpu (small bitwidth fine!) if it meant I could have a million of them.
Something about the pinouts makes me think this impractical.... ;) s. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Mark Boon<[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
