The EETimes sits down with NVidia’s chief scientist William Dally and talks about the future of processors and performance. No surprise that Dally predicts that Moore’s law will prevent us from making single processors much faster, so the future is in massively parallel systems. Then he gazes into his crystal ball and comes up with this:
“Now that we are no longer scaling single-thread processors, you have no alternative,” Dally said.
Throughput processors have hundreds of cores today and will have thousands of cores by 2015, Dally said. By then, Nvidia will have GPUs implemented on 11 nm process technology that feature roughly 5,000 cores and 20 teraflops of performance, Dally predicted.
via EETimes.com – Nvidia chief scientist to EDA: Give us power tools.
