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The Fight Against Dark Silicon

Posted by timothy on from the can't-we-all-just-get-along? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What do you do when chips get too hot to take advantage of all of those transistors that Moore's Law provides? You turn them off, and end up with a lot of dark silicon — transistors that lie unused because of power limitations. As detailed in MIT Technology Review, Researchers at UC San Diego are fighting dark silicon with a new kind of processor for mobile phones that employs a hundred or so specialized cores. They achieve 11x improvement in energy efficiency by doing so."

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  1. Re:Darkies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is it dark silicon they fight against? This represents the struggle of the black man to overcome racial prejudice and retake the word "nigger". The parallels are deep, man.

    Exactly. Why do you think green olives are in glass jars and black olives are in tin cans? So the black olives can't look out. It's subliminal racism I tell you.

  2. Re:That's not the solution, this is by DurendalMac · · Score: 4, Funny

    Java is a lumbering, bloated behemoth that everyone seems to know, but far less know well. C# is what happened when Microsoft knew Java in a Biblical sense.