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		lightedman 33 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semi... Wouldn't it be funny to see that CPU produced on a modern node? Given the low transistor count, you could probably achieve speeds in the multi-10s of GHz, it would be so small. A multi-core 99/4A would be hilarious to witness.

kragen 33 days ago [–]

With MESI cache coherence, maybe you could migrate the whole workspace for your subroutine into a line of your core's L1D cache, and make it perform like hardware registers while retaining the pleasantly parsimonious TMS 990 architectural semantics?

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