Re:IEDM 2022: Did We Just Witness the Death of SRAM?
by ChuckMcM on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:44AM
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Sigh. That some circuits are not getting smaller is not really all that newsworthy. Circuit folks have looked at scaling issues for decades, this wasn't surprising.
That said, there are exciting things in stacking layers, and inter chip layer connects (chip on chip technology) that could make more feature dense (if slightly taller) chips.
Heat dissipation continues to be an issue as well.
As someone who started at Intel in the 80's though, the amount of "surplus" cheap resources resembles your typical laptop with gigabytes of RAM and terabytes of disk, there is a huge amount of gain to be had in re-architecting software as there is gain to be had in re-architecting the micro-architecture of SoCs.
Re:IEDM 2022: Did We Just Witness the Death of SRAM?
by ChrisLTD on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:57AM
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It's hard to avoid the conclusion that software today isn't 1,000s of times better than software in the 1990s, but it certainly uses 1,000s of times the resources.
That said, there are exciting things in stacking layers, and inter chip layer connects (chip on chip technology) that could make more feature dense (if slightly taller) chips.
Heat dissipation continues to be an issue as well.
As someone who started at Intel in the 80's though, the amount of "surplus" cheap resources resembles your typical laptop with gigabytes of RAM and terabytes of disk, there is a huge amount of gain to be had in re-architecting software as there is gain to be had in re-architecting the micro-architecture of SoCs.