re: FRANKENCHIP - This will change how computing is done

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This is the nerdiest active thread currently on the Tech Board.

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That's a shame if you think about it.

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Once we hit the theoretical physical limit of a gate length (a single atom or whatever), where do we go from there?

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parallelism is the answer. On all levels.

The FPGA - essentially - is a way to achieve extremely fine grained parallelism. But parallelism will have to be exploited at all levels to realize full performance potential. The Intel Phis - for instance - ~70 cores on one chip ( and I think each is 4 threads - so 280 threads).