I am reminded of some comments by Charles Moore (the guy that designed the "forth" language, though more recently he has also been doing chip design) about the nature of VLSI design software.
I have not been able to find the text I was remembering, and this from something like a decade ago, so I might be misremembering. But, in essence, I think he said that the industry rejects order-of-magnitude improvements which do not fit their tools. (He was specifically talking about chip designs which were self clocking vs the traditional designs which require a clock and, thus, have considerably more silicon overhead, tend to switch slower, and draw considerably more power -- this is a different issue from the RISC design concept, though it would not necessarily conflict with RISC.) Anyways, I didn't get much technical information from the video -- it felt more like marketing -- but it was interesting. Thanks, -- Raul On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 10:41 PM Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > How Apple Just Changed the Entire Industry (M1 Chip) > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuF9weSkS68 > > > Good for some fascinating history, provocative figures and curious > background facts. > > > Not Apple promo, but by a non-Apple admirer. Or should that be: an Apple > non-admirer. (Nice chip, shame about the company.) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
