AI chip startup Wave to buy Silicon Valley old-timer MIPS

Re:AI chip startup Wave to buy Silicon Valley old-timer MIPS by walterbell on Friday June 15, 2018 @08:50AM (#17319367)

With the end of Moore's Law, are we returning to vertically integrated hardware+software?

Domain Specific Architecture talk by Hennessy & Patterson, 2018 talk for 2017 Turing Award: http://iscaconf.org/isca2018/docs/HennessyPattersonTuringLec...

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Re:AI chip startup Wave to buy Silicon Valley old-timer MIPS by pjmlp on Friday June 15, 2018 @12:47PM (#17321255)

I will watch the talk later.

However I can say yes, we are returning to those days.

Thanks to the thin razor margins you see OEMs now selling un-upgradable phones, laptops, tablets, 2-1, leaving the old desktop PC for a niche market that gets smaller every year, mostly targeted at gamers.

Also OEMs got envious of Apple as the surviving icon of those days, all of them want to be Apple of their market and sell experiences.

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