The Future of Microprocessors
9 years ago in #science by inertia (74)
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I don't really know anything about this stuff but it actually makes a lot of sense.
I've been trying to research cost-effective gaming systems and some of the dual-core processors actually perform better than some quad cores and they're cheaper (for the most part).
It seems like the manufacturer's are trying to pour more water into an already full cup and relying on the fact that consumers think more stuff means more value when they're probably over-paying.
Yeah, that is happening. But there are also power users who will make sure they use everything they're paying for. I'm sure there's a car analogy that applies.
I am pretty sure the problem of frequency is related to resistance not precision. Since at least 5 years the watt cost per instruction halved every 18 months. Multiple processors scale beautifully when doing 3D graphics.
Typical GPUs now have hundreds of parallel units. Cryptographic and media decoding algorithms algorithms are highly parallelisable also. Matrix math naturally scales easily.
All these cores will be running blockchain and distributed computing and storage nodes in the future. There is no future in centralised databases, and computers hold immense value in some of this database. Security requires a lot of encryption. If it isn't obvious to you yet, you aren't looking. Information security is the big issue now.
Number one, to everyone.
Block chains are limited by single threaded performance.
But, that's on purpose, right?
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