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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by dahart on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:28AM (#24679289)
FWIW, I don’t think perf improvements are slowing down, I just think efficiency improvements in ICs are. Flops per watt of general compute isn’t moving quickly, and can’t anymore. But we can still make bigger parallel machines, design better algorithms, solve new problems, etc.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by fulafel on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:56AM (#24679503)
Outside HPC/ML I think our programs are now trading off useful ops per watt to take some advantage of the elusive beast called thread level parallelism. A web browser is happy to get a speedup of N by throwing 2N or 4N spinning threads at the problem if correctness and stability can be retained.
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