I was preaching the same thing ever since I realized it in the summer of 2003. Here is an essentially word-by-word narrative of my thoughts on the subject ...
Transistor count is rising, but it doesn't lead to meaningfully increasing CPU speeds on typical applications any more, except for the cache effect. Thus the...
Actually, it is an interesting thought experiment - let's say you have a 100 million transistors - what would be the most efficient architecture? Let's assume...
Let me expand some more. The only really useful thing you can do with more transistors is to add more calculating units (ALU, FPU, etc..), that is increase...
Here is the important point that I want to put across, which in my view clarifies things a lot: In first approximation, the optimal number of cores is...
... The main thing to remember about the C++ committee members, Herb included, is that they designed a language that looks like it was designed by a...
Hi, what is so new in this information? I've seen some physical explanation why CPU clock limit is around 4GHz (for ordinary technology, not optics, etc.),...
I think what's new is that some of the gloom and doom is coming to pass. As a quick review: 1. Moore's Law was that your processor would run twice as fast in...
CPU's are getting faster in two major ways: clock speed and the number of transistors. Many differrent people were saying many differrent things for a long...
Bookmarklet is a bookmarked javascript function. When navigated to, it executes on a current document. This is so cool! http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/...
BayXP is the San Francisco bay area extreme programming users group. We meet on the 3rd Wednesday of every month to discuss various issues surrounding XP....
Dear Club members, I'm doing some research and appreciate your help. Please feel free to disregard this message if you have any concerns about privacy or else....
Hi Stas, I am not at home and can't give you my data. But take a look at this: http://forum.privet.com/viewtopic.php?t=66087 Maybe it is going to be useful. In...
www.dslreports.com The most accurate info so far on DSL/broadband distribution -- Eugene _____ From: Eugene Pekurovsky [mailto:pekurovsky@...] Sent:...
Dear Club Members! February 7 - save the date! Starting New Year with Big Event! We are happy to invite you to the AmBAR - CoolTech Club Big Joint Event on ...
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Important Clarification : CoolTech Club members need to pay only $5 to participate ( as usual on our Club Events). However, to get CLUB discount, I need to...
I attended this talk. It was excellent! It was in the same room as our regular club meetings, and it was standing room only. A slightly old presentation is...
We are looking for a blade server, Cisco router (2800 or 7600 series or Juniper equivalent) and a high bandwidth firewall. Please email me: orico@... ...
A startup is developing an application targeting cell phones with Windows Mobile. They already have sharp people and a working application. They are looking...
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