On 4/18/07, Patrick McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38964
Indeed. It appears that, at least temporarily, manufacturing processes have outpaced engineer's ability to effectively use said manufacturing capacity. The absolutely massive multi-megabyte caches on recent CPUs hint at the same problem. There's long-term hope in cores like Sun's UltraSparc T1, Via's C7, etc... but ultimately, the software _and_ underlying CPU architecture are going to have to handle massive parallelism (one easy way to use lots of transistors) in a reasonably transparent way, or use more transistors being fpga-like, or a combination of the two. Of course, as always, more and more devices will fall into the silicon black hole that is the CPU as well. Undoubtedly we'll eventually see high-performance machines that are capable of functioning with just the CPU, with a few high-speed interfaces for additional hardware or co-processors. Wake me up when system RAM succumbs to the inevitable. --tim _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
