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Introducing Probability into Chip Design
prostoalex writes "The August issue of Intel Developer Update has an interview with Shekhar Borkar, Intel Fellow and Director of Circuit Research at Intel Corp. talking about the future of microprocessor design and what goes on inside Intel Labs. Borkar tells why we need even faster processors and how probability will make its way into future chip designs - "It's like the shift from Newtonian mechanics to quantum mechanics. We will shift from the deterministic designs of today to probabilistic and statistical designs of the future.""
Sorry could not resist.
UM, Ford. theres an infinite number of monkeys outside that want to talk to us about a script for hamlet they've hammered out. PROBABILITY FACTOR OF 1 to 1: any other problems are your own lookout.
Software always had it. User: "It'll *probably* work" "It *should* work" If hardware gets more, software needs less...
'cause if intel is gonna make a processor that's in a way kinda right most of the time...i'm going for the green stuff instead :-)
For example, if you take a thousand samples of Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processors
Did anyone else stop reading the article at that point? Nothing like an (R) to completely destroy the flow of an article.
Thanks Intel(R)!
.999... is exactly equal to 1. To the non-believers out there, consider that 1/3 = .333..., and that 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1.
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Hey, this is nothing new as anyone who owned an original Pentium can tell you. It probably gave you the right answer, except for the occassional FDIV.
Didn't intel already do this whith the original Pentium?
Read, L
... for extremely large values of 1.
Kinda like we've been releasing software that "probably" works for the past 40 years?
It's good to see computer engineering is finally catching up with computer science!
This will make HAL even worse:
OPEN the DOOR HAL!
Proberbly not, Dave
Infinitely Improbable!
Isn't probability already a part of chip design.
"Our new P4 has a 40% probability of being out in May, a 20% chance of being out in June..."
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
And we'll all be traveling in flying cars while eating meals in pill form!!
Well, we've got to have probability processors before we can ever hope to make an Infinite Improbability Drive !
Intel:
The addition is probably right.
Amd:
It will probably melt through your desk.
Me:
I will probably be modded to Hell.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Q4: What are some other applications that need more power?
Look at the whole proactive computing model, where computers will anticipate our needs and sometimes take action on our behalf. That's one.
When he said this, all I could think of was, yeah, computers need more power to run the heavy virus workload and still make them usable.