While Moore's Law continues to drive consumer and manufacturer expectations of technological advancement, frequency scaling has given way to parallel scaling and our most visible indicator of ever increasing transistor density is ever multiplying cores. Welcome to the Parallel Jungle where heterogeneous cores and ultimately the cloud offer far faster growth rates in parallelism than even described by Moore's Law. [more inside]
posted by I've wasted my life on Jan 31, 2012 - 31 comments

Our new silicon overlords might end up carbon based after all.
posted by flabdablet on Jun 27, 2009 - 29 comments