Sophie Wilson - The Future of Microprocessors

Moore's law has been dead for a while now. Most of the chip in your phone is powered off because otherwise it would burn up. Highly recommend watching this video: link to this video

It is hard (read expensive) to go under 14nm. Sophie Wilson talks about it much better then i could. link to this video

The Future of Microprocessors 00:46:35 by **Sophie Wilson** (2016)

> when Moore's Law hits physical limits? It already did. Sophie Wilson said 0 its 28nm for ever. Scaling further makes no economic sense (unless you really need the space, e.g. in Smartphones). 0 link to this video

I agree that this article hits pretty hard against a lot of assumptions about how our machines are working. I also feel like the author is trying to say something about how imperative scalar (meaning 'operates on one datum at a time') languages are causing more trouble than they're worth. Sophie Wilson said something similar in her talk about the future of microprocessors 1. This implies that declarative and functional semantics would be more amenable to parallelization, as the author mentions in the article, as well as allowing the compiler more freedom to deduce a suitable 'reordering' of operations that would better fit the memory access heuristics the machine is using. 1 link to this video