[dewster]

From the article: “Caches and virtual memory as they are currently implemented are some of the worst design decisions that have ever been made,” Sohmers boldly told a room of HPC-focused attendees at the Open Compute Summit this week.

As a lay processor designer, I couldn't agree more. I don't like VLIW, but this architecture makes a lot of sense. I think it took up to this point for compiler technology to catch up with what is possible in hardware.

Almost all the good ideas in computing were mined out long ago, the trick I think is to get the computing world to give up on those which are holding things back (cold dead hands if necessary).