Sounds like they'll be 1,000 times as fast for the same design, but wouldn't they likely just make them smaller instead?
Or will they be smaller?
Sounds like they'll be 1,000 times as fast for the same design, but wouldn't they likely just make them smaller instead? -- Drew |
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That's probably how they get the speedup.
At those sizes, the speed of light is a very important consideration. |
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But what if they don't speed up at all?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11550/the-intel-skylakex-review-core-i9-7900x-i7-7820x-and-i7-7800x-tested/6 That shows the latest Intel Skylake 28-core design has a 698 mm^2 die size. If you reduce the complexity of that design by a factor of 1,000 you have a chip smaller than 1 mm^2. I know performance doesn't scale linearly with die size, but as a first approximation you could fit the performance of a high-end server in a microSD card. -- Drew |
Well, so much for Silicon Valley . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (4)
- Sept. 29, 2020, 04:30:57 PM EDT
Or will they be smaller?
- (drook)
- (2)
- Sept. 29, 2020, 05:29:05 PM EDT
That's probably how they get the speedup.
- (InThane)
- (1)
- Sept. 29, 2020, 06:01:04 PM EDT
But what if they don't speed up at all?
- (drook)
- Sept. 30, 2020, 12:02:34 AM EDT
Original press release
- (Another Scott)
- Sept. 29, 2020, 06:12:05 PM EDT