Ask HN: What are the next steps regarding processors technology?

Posted by romgrk on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:52PM
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Given that Moore's law has come to an end and it's not doable to keep shrinking stuff, where will the next improvements regarding processors be made?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the next steps regarding processors tech... by thedevindevops on Thursday April 18, 2019 @06:26AM (#19689978)

Optical Processors, FGPA 'reconfigurable hardware', 3d layering, Quantum processors (if they ever go commercial), Neurochips (rat-brain-neural-network-on-a-chip for specialist hardware applications). If hardware devs ever run out of ideas we may even have to go back to resource-efficient programming!

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Re:Ask HN: What are the next steps regarding processors tech... by p1esk on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @11:51PM (#19688575)

Next couple of generations will still be "shrinking stuff", after that it will be "new stuff" (e.g. graphene) and "stacking stuff" (3D integration).

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Re:Ask HN: What are the next steps regarding processors tech... by sgillen on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @04:34PM (#19686272)

Specialization. We're already seeing specialized processors take over niches of compute (Googles TPU, bitcoin ASICs, GPUs etc etc). I think we'll see this trend accelerate.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the next steps regarding processors tech... by imakwana on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @08:45PM (#19687741)

2017 ACM Turing Award Lecture by Hennessy and Patterson nicely summarizes the emphasis on domain-specific languages and domain-specific architectures going forward. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/2/234352-a-new-golden-ag...

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Re:Ask HN: What are the next steps regarding processors tech... by johnsimer on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @10:51PM (#19688349)

Have any of you here looked into neuromorphic computing and Spiky Neural Networks? Do these show any promise?

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