1. Monster Chip like Monster Home?
“ what San Franciscans have come to know as a monster home--a 6,000-square- foot behemoth that would tower five stories high, casting neighbors in its shadow and stretching clear to its lot lines.”
“San Franciscans Fight Monster Home Invasion,” LA Times, 7/13/00
Bay Area cities using ordinances to stop them
Era of wretched excess, homes & chips
branch prediction buffers bigger than minicomputer memory!
Sustaining Moore’s Law vs. MIPS/$?
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2. Sustaining Moore’s Law vs. MIPS/$?
Intel MPU die
RISC II die
Scaled RISC II about 1/1000th size of current MPU
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3. Sub 1mm2 MPU core as building block (32-bit RISC MPU as the Nand gate)
Alternative universe
Inspiration: Google
Search engine for world (20% more queries/month)
Economical, scalable build block: PC
today 6000 PCs, disks (1 petabyte)
Sub 1mm2 MPU core as building block
(32-bit RISC MPU as the Nand gate)
Special purpose chips with 100s of economical MPUs vs. Monster MPUs
“Cluster on a chip” enable amazing MIPS/$, MIPS/watt for applications
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