The Future of Hardware Is Software

Re:The Future of Hardware Is Software by tw04 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:05PM (#29900353)

Ahh, yes, back to 2010 when everyone told companies like Hitachi they were doing storage wrong by relying on custom ASICs.

Meanwhile Google and Facebook and Amazon are making hardware offload engines because they've figured out there's a limit to the performance of general purpose CPUs and it's a lot of wasted power.

You can't have it both ways, efficiency and speed or flexibility, choose one.

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Re:The Future of Hardware Is Software by AtlasBarfed on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:28AM (#29903068)

I was going to write this in the rant article about React and how everything is rewrapped bloat.

Yeah I think it will be the opposite in the medium term future.

Moore's law can't last forever, the slowdown has already occurred, and then you'll need two things for a couple generations to get better:

1) code optimization / stack reduction / api efficiency / less abstraction

2) moving software to hardware to get that sweet speedup and efficiency

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