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Title: Asics? This is what they dreamed of in the 80s: Wafer scale Integration Post by: ElectricMucus on September 06, 2011, 02:59:19 PM I just discovered this video: :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JYZviFH54 And the strange thing is: at some point these things will actually work. What does that mean for us? This process makes traditional VLSI obsolete. The cost of manufacturing computers would be so drastically reduced (No more expensive PCBs, packaging and so on) that building a customized chip-based application specific asic would be no longer needed. We simply would have 10^5 to 10^7 processors on a large silicon device (Using 180-32nm with 8 inch wafers) And if you research a little there are already some companies willing to touch the subject again... ;) Title: Re: Asics? This is what they dreamed of in the 80s: Wafer scale Integration Post by: RyNinDaCleM on September 07, 2011, 05:45:50 PM That vid is 24 years old! You'd think they would have something produced by now!
Title: Re: Asics? This is what they dreamed of in the 80s: Wafer scale Integration Post by: ElectricMucus on September 08, 2011, 12:01:16 PM Yeah its one of those things, like 3D Cinema... nobody thinks it will ever be around till it suddenly does and you ask yourself why it hasn't much sooner.
Title: Re: Asics? This is what they dreamed of in the 80s: Wafer scale Integration Post by: Transisto on September 09, 2011, 09:27:14 AM ... did not watch
Damn, how relevant can a 24 years old video be ? Seriously, stop Title: Re: Asics? This is what they dreamed of in the 80s: Wafer scale Integration Post by: ElectricMucus on September 09, 2011, 05:11:53 PM ... did not watch could you be trolling? :oDamn, how relevant can a 24 years old video be ? Seriously, stop Title: Re: Asics? This is what they dreamed of in the 80s: Wafer scale Integration Post by: cicada on September 09, 2011, 06:37:29 PM ... did not watch Damn, how relevant can a 24 years old video be ? Seriously, stop To my knowledge, electricity and how we use it hasn't fundamentally changed in, well, since we started using it. I didn't watch either, but I have no doubt the concepts may still hold up. Perhaps you might not have ideas 20 years ahead of their time, but that doesn't mean someone else didn't. |