Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress

Re:Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress by civilized on Saturday December 11, 2021 @09:59PM (#29526730)

You can't make a CPU faster by making it bigger. All you can do is have more CPUs working at the same time. But for the most part computers don't need more parallel processors, they need to figure out how to use the ones they already have.

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Re:Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress by klelatti on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:13AM (#29528177)

> You can't make a CPU faster by making it bigger.

Modern CPUs identify and take advantage of potential parallelism in apparently sequential code. When you compare Apple’s large cores with the small ones on the same SoC the extra transistors are used to do this.

So you can make a CPU faster by making it bigger.

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Re:Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress by sdenton4 on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:00PM (#29527005)

Well, the last decade of graphics processing and ml are pretty solidly on the side of more+better parallelism. And brains, for that matter.

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Re:Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress by visarga on Sunday December 12, 2021 @02:49AM (#29527865)

Human cells/neurons also run in parallel.

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