Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz...
by ngangaga on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @08:08AM
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Sure, if you think the world consists of cash transactions and whatever a car needs to think about.
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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz...
by leonheld on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @08:16AM
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If we're talking numbers, there are many, many more embedded systems than general purpose computers. And these are mostly built on ancient process nodes compared to the cutting edge we have today; the shiny octa-cores on our phones are supported by a myriad of ancilliary chips that are definitely not cutting edge.
Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz...
by ngangaga on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @08:20AM
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We aren't talking numbers, though. Who cares about embedded? I mean that literally. This is computation invisible by design. If that were sufficient we wouldn't have smartphones.
Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz...
by rescbr on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @11:58AM
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In a way, and for a long time, smartphones were/are defined as embedded devices.
I still don't see how one can classify a smartphone as a general-purpose computing device, even though they have enough computing power as a laptop.