Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 17:48:38 02/28/03
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On February 28, 2003 at 18:58:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >It's not the CPU speed we need to worry about. It's the memory bandwidth. >Memory speed increases only linearly, while CPU speeds tend to increase >exponentially. It has already become a significant problem. Unless a >breakthrough occurs, the speed of the CPU will at some point become irrelevant, >because the memory cannot possibly feed it fast enough. Here's what one memory-designer has to say (recombine URL): http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&PostNum=1165&Thread=2&roomID=13&entryID=13764 If you want to see the entire thread, which is very interesting: http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&PostNum=1165&Thread=1&EntryID=13760&RoomID=13
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