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atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

ate all the Oreos posted:

i would really like to see a new big deal processor architecture that's not ARM or x86 some time just because i think it would be real interesting and the way computers do things has changed a bunch since the loving 1980's but that's never gonna happen lol

or at least in the future when there's quantum neural cyberbrains or w/e they'll still have an x86 compatibility mode for running your company's lovely Java 5 accounting software

my man have you heard of this revolutionary new "mill architecture"

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atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
joking aside, SPARC64 XII is cool as all hell. don't even step unless your CPU has dedicated SQL cores

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

carry on then posted:

as/400: you rang?



call me when as/400 gets 8 threads per core with 12 cores at 4.35 ghz :smuggo:

edit: die size of 795 mm2

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Bloody posted:

what the heck is software on chip

various acceleration implemented as RISC instructions instead of coprocessing units



atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
quantx

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