Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:16:29 09/25/01
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On September 25, 2001 at 14:06:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] >Hold on to your hat. I'd expect that within the next _five_ years you will >see single chips with two processors on them. _that_ will change the way >computing looks, once and for all... Why stop at two? If you put 64 CPU's on a single die, you can eliminate the external switching circuitry, and greatly reduce the distance the signals must travel. At super high switching rates, a distance of 10cm is very significant. (See Seymour Cray's "nanosecond of wire" for an illustration). If we have trouble breaking (say) 10GHz, then just have 1024 CPU's at 10GHz which would give a few terahertz [though not ten certainly]. I'll bet that would play a pretty snappy game of chess. Might even make blitz worth watching.
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