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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by yvdriess on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:55AM (#25359067)
I personally would love to see a frontend architecture that more closely resembles the backend: dataflow execution. It's been researched in the 80s/90s, with some hybrids popping up in literature from time to time (TRIPS, ADAM, etc)

Counterpoint: processors have gotten so good at extracting ILP from a sequential ISA that I wonder how much benefit you would gain from a dataflow ISA. The downside is that it would require to completely rethink and redo the software stack. (efficient par to seq is just as hard as efficient seq to par)

Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by Gravityloss on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:24AM (#25373961)
This is interesting.

The new architectures could also support new programming languages where single instruction multiple data and parallelism would be easier.

Get rid of all the sequential part.