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"Faster chips are leaving programmers in their dust" 17 December 07

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International Herald Tribune: Faster chips are leaving programmers in their dust

Engineers and computer scientists acknowledge that despite advances in recent decades, the computer industry is still lagging in its ability to write parallel programs.

Indeed, a leading computer scientist has warned that an easy solution to programming chips with dozens of processors has not yet been discovered. [...]

He [Craig Mundie of Microsoft] envisions modern chips that will increasingly resemble musical orchestras. Rather than having tiled arrays of identical processors, the microprocessor of the future will include many different computing cores, each built to solve a specific type of problem. AMD has already announced its intent to blend both graphics and traditional processing units onto a single piece of silicon.

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