Re: Moore's Law

From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 18:02:37 MDT


J Corbally wrote:
 
> More and more I'm thinking of my own machine not as a 933MHz system, but as
> a 0.9GHz one.

I would rather like to think of my system as a 100 CPU 10 GHz box.

Oops, I can't, because the transistor count and gate delay is
allright, but the architecture is screwed.

1e9 transistors, with sub-ps gate delays? Wonderful, we'll use *all*
of them, but not in a single CPU.

-- Eugen* Leitl
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