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Re:AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Net... by jostmey on Sunday June 24, 2018 @01:37PM (#17387409)
Writing code to run in parallel across a large number of small "chips" is probably the future of programming. In this sense, new programming languages like Julia might prove useful?
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Re:AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Net... by wolf550e on Sunday June 24, 2018 @02:29PM (#17387692)
This "future of programming" was very widely announced in 2005: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
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Re:AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Net... by insulanus on Sunday June 24, 2018 @03:26PM (#17387974)
Yes, and in the 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation

And the 80s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer

And, aw heck. We knew it was coming :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing

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Re:AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Net... by pjmlp on Monday June 25, 2018 @03:44AM (#17390622)
You forgot this nice one, :)

https://www.parallax.com/catalog/microcontrollers/propeller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller

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Re:AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New Chip Net... by insulanus on Monday June 25, 2018 @06:31PM (#17396388)
Totally. I wanted one of those so bad - thanks for adding it! :)
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