Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Tue 13th Jul 2004 21:56 UTC
After personal computers arrived in the 1970's they went through a series of revolutionary changes delivered by a series of different platforms. It's been over a decade since we've seen anything truly revolutionary, will we see a revolution again? I believe we could not only see revolution again, we could build it today.
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>Mac two-line description wrong
Fixed.
>grey
No, the idea is not to do custom chips at all. There's no real point these days unless you can really do something special and even then it is extraordinarily expensive.
>Anonymous
is there an instruction set that goes beyond cisc, risc and vliw and epic?
The problem with VLIW is it depends on the compiler extracting all the parallelisim in the instruction stream, if it can't it doesn't help.
I didn't specify which CPU I'd use as I didn't think yet another CPU fame war in the forum would be any benefit.
personally, since hitachi superh core only takes up like 3mm, but performs on-par with a 1-ghz pentium 3, and many 90nm processors have die size of 120mm, why not have a 40-cpu multicore superh processor (allowing for built-in controller and cache size)
Yes, that's what I expect, dozens of cores on a CPU so you can then spread out the OS and applications across them.
>Various missing machines
The list was only to give a few examples, it was not meant to be exaustive.