It's incredible how in those few paragraphs he envisioned so many things that could be enabled by cramming more transistors in, that a half century later are still somewhat novel.
Honestly, I feel the opposite. What he imagined back then as absolutely crazy was standard only 20 years after. It is crazy how exponentials work. Wild to think where we are standing 60 years later and wild to think where we will stand in 60 years.
I guess the bit I was referring to as somewhat novel is when he referred to memory being combined with compute rather than separate - As 'compute in memory' or distributed memory and compute architectures, are recent enough. separate memory and compute still domiante, but with HBM, stacked cache, and GPUs using significantly more on die memory were now seeing some quite different architectures realized
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It's incredible how in those few paragraphs he envisioned so many things that could be enabled by cramming more transistors in, that a half century later are still somewhat novel.
Honestly, I feel the opposite. What he imagined back then as absolutely crazy was standard only 20 years after. It is crazy how exponentials work. Wild to think where we are standing 60 years later and wild to think where we will stand in 60 years.
I guess the bit I was referring to as somewhat novel is when he referred to memory being combined with compute rather than separate - As 'compute in memory' or distributed memory and compute architectures, are recent enough. separate memory and compute still domiante, but with HBM, stacked cache, and GPUs using significantly more on die memory were now seeing some quite different architectures realized