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Re:The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter by WatchDog on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:46AM (#23125107)
The future sure sounds a lot like the past, given that everything, even toasters have CPU's in them these days.
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Re:The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter by corysama on Saturday May 09, 2020 @12:08PM (#23125927)
http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/Wheel.html

We’re currently rolling around back to a new era of lots of specialized chips.

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Re:The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter by daxfohl on Saturday May 09, 2020 @12:42PM (#23126189)
IDK, even in operations the size of the cloud providers, executing some of the same things billions of times a second, there's still very few specialized chips. TPU is an example, and I think they all use some for network packet filtering and such. But you don't see anything for DB acceleration or paxos acceleration or maps acceleration or anything like that. They've had years to figure this out, so if they're not finding it worth it at hypercompetitive cloud scale then I don't see the revolution going too awful far anytime soon.
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Re:The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter by monocasa on Saturday May 09, 2020 @01:46PM (#23126758)
Alibaba has been pushing the envelope pretty heavily in this area. I've heard of them using their FPGA instance for memcachedb instances, and video transcoding instances.
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Re:The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter by duskwuff on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:03PM (#23128297)
Toasters are moving back to ASICs too:

https://www.diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/PT8A2514A.pdf

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Re:The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter by DonHopkins on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:17PM (#23129028)
You could make toasters by recycling used MacBook Pros!
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Re:The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter by stjohnswarts on Saturday May 09, 2020 @06:27PM (#23128777)
lol meanwhile my 20 year old off brand toaster continues to toast just fine with 0 chips. As does my 10 year old dial based toaster oven
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