Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w...
by vvanders on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:21PM
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Yeah, this seems like the exact same problems that we already have with FPGAs.
1. They're really hard to program for in a way that is easy to understand and scale.
2. They eat a ton of power. Heat = power = max speed. If you can't make it better then today existing ASICs are still going to be used.
The intersection of ASIC + reconfigurable serial processes(aka sequential programming) strikes a really sweet point between power and flexibility that I think is going to be hard to unseat.
I think FPGAs are incredible but if this were true I think we'd already see them taking over the world.
1. They're really hard to program for in a way that is easy to understand and scale.
2. They eat a ton of power. Heat = power = max speed. If you can't make it better then today existing ASICs are still going to be used.
The intersection of ASIC + reconfigurable serial processes(aka sequential programming) strikes a really sweet point between power and flexibility that I think is going to be hard to unseat.
I think FPGAs are incredible but if this were true I think we'd already see them taking over the world.