Nvidia: Moore's Law is Dead, Multi-core Not Future

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This contains nothing but content hijacked from the original piece (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1314227). It's surprising that people can get away with this. I thought tomshardware was a credible site.

Agreed, but they do link to and credit the original article.

It adds absolutely nothing, so the person that posted it really shouldn't have bothered putting his name on top.

Dally must have got round to reading the CS books from the 1990s

This is my favourite from 1992 :

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ulb.tu-da...

His is spot on though, but we need to get the vector unit as standard on the MB, not some add-on card. Larabee talks good graphics talk but the real gift should just be the vector FPU made available to the OS.

SSEx processes 128bits in one operation which can represent 2 x 64bit doubles or 4 x 32bit floats or 8 x dwords or 16 bytes, which I thought was me reading it wrong, they call it SIMD and let you have 2 64bit data points which I suppose is technically true :) I was expecting something spectacular like 128.

Dally must have got round to reading the CS books from the 1990s

I got a laugh out of this, considering that Professor Dally writes CS/EE textbooks.

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