Re: RC Transmission Lines (Wafer-Scale)

"Robert Baer" <robertbaer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Phil Hobbs wrote:
Forgive me for a rather nasty question.
What is this phoney push for more junk on a piece of silicon to support
what used to be relatively simple applications?
What was wrong with KISS?
In a personal computer, one does not need 2^10 core CPUs, or even dual
core; any CPU speed over 1Ghz is wasted, and for 99+% uses Win98Se is more
than good enough.
Now, if one gets into graphics (read: games, design PCBs or other
complex artwork), then more speed becomes useful and Win2K becomes a
better choice.
Oh, you say, we "need" dual (or quad) core for graphics.
What the hell is that large graphics chip on the fancy video card for?
Boat anchor?
In fact, what good was the MMX instruction set for, since the sound card
already supported those functions.
On a cell phone guess what - its purpose is to send and receive calls,
period.
Want to do something else like portable music - players have been around
for over 10 years that do that; they just get smaller and store more.
Etc etc and etc (courtesy of Yul Brynner in the King and I).


more and more of the silicon is being used to overcome bottlenecks
elsewhere,
it doesnt actually do any more processing just tries to keep the very fast
core
ocupied.
if only we could make use of more distributed processing
each core wouldnt need to be as fast and so could use much less silicon.

microcontollers easily manage 40mips+ and they run so cool
they dont need any heatsink. im sure a modern disc drive could
run something like msdos on its own.

nothing can be done about it though as there is no incentive
to develop distributed software as there is little distributed hardware,
and so there is no incentive to develop the hardware as there is no
software.

Colin =^.^=


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