Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:44:15 09/25/01
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On September 25, 2001 at 14:16:29, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. More will come. As transistors shrink, more and more are going to be stuffed onto a chip. Ncube did a 4-cpu chip several years ago. After the duals, the quads and up will come over time.
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