Re:Is it time for open processors?
by cm2187 on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:40AM
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Because the compute power for consumer CPU nowadays is good enough, the effort has been in reducing energy consumption. But if you look at the server / workstation side, you can get 20+ cores in a single dice.
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Good enough relative to the competition perhaps.
Nowadays the CPU is the bottle-neck even when surfing the web and using simple (electron) text editors.
But that's not really a CPU problem but a software problem. And faster CPUs won't fix it, due to Wirth's Law.