[UncleOxidant]

> unexpected increase in the clock frequency of single core CPUs

The 90s were brutal for alternative architectures like the Transputer because performance of Intel processors were significantly improving just about yearly. I recall a neural net chip startup company near where I live - they did some cool science Saturday presentations for the public where they explained how neural nets worked (this was the early 90s). But unfortunately, they only lasted a few years - they were only about 25 years ahead of their time. Now here we are in the 2020s and alternative architectures are sprouting like dandelions.