Google is offering to produce free chips for you. They have to be open source, they are using 20 year old technology and you'll get 100 of them. Could someone reverse engineer a SID-chip and have Goggle start to crank those suckers out?
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/open_chip_hardware/
https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 07 2020, @12:16AM (6 children)
Throwing some business their way could be a sign that Google is interested in 3DSoC [ieee.org].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:35AM (4 children)
> Google is interested in 3DSoC [ieee.org].
Could be. But it's certain that takyon is interested in 3D silicon...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 07 2020, @01:39AM (3 children)
Yes. I don't want to see Moore slaw hit a brick wall within the next 10 years.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by coolgopher on Tuesday July 07 2020, @02:47AM (2 children)
Actually, I think that would be a good thing. We'd have a least a decade of two where we'd be able to compensate by unbloating the software instead.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:07AM (1 child)
Nah, I'll take the orders of magnitude "free lunch" speedup first. There's nothing stopping you from writing or running efficient code, except maybe your bosses and the world at large.
Don't forget that there is also energy efficiency to be gained by moving memory closer to cores, not just performance, and the 3D approach will be beneficial to neuromorphic computing.
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(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:17AM
I'd like both, but the state of software isn't going to improve while hardware gains can cover for sloppy coding.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 07 2020, @03:27AM
Throwing some business their way
Adverts for nothing
And your chips for free
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