Well... lets just call it ignorance... All them "disagree" mails seem to be sent by people who are ignorant to/. and its origins. Built by geeks who are obvious savvy to flamewars on usenet... The mods/devs understand that its impossible to moderate forums for "niceness" and "on-topic" when they generate enough traffic.
So... Get with the program or GTFO.
*grabs coat*
It matters because an instruction set determines what you can do with a programmable IC.
If a chip is programmable it has an instruction set, while your TV may have several ICs in it, if you look at older TV's they are probably likely not to have "an instruction set" at all. They might not even have IC's in them.
I think CPU's had 3-4% of the IC market. While rest of the chips are all mostly non-programmable chips, without an instruction set. FPGA's showed up recently and these things can actually be programmed with a completely new instruction set each time... CPU's aren't the "fastest" way of doing things, they are simply more versatile.
My best guess is the TILE64 probably bridges a little between FPGAs and CPUs, and ALL of what it is capable of doing will be dependent on its instruction set. Being able to pipeline processes inside the TILE64 for example would probably something crucial to its design.
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Well... lets just call it ignorance... All them "disagree" mails seem to be sent by people who are ignorant to /. and its origins. Built by geeks who are obvious savvy to flamewars on usenet... The mods/devs understand that its impossible to moderate forums for "niceness" and "on-topic" when they generate enough traffic.
So... Get with the program or GTFO.
*grabs coat*
hear here! Will drive me nuts! I'd rather not have it.
Nothing, go back to your game and leave slashdot forever, noob.
It matters because an instruction set determines what you can do with a programmable IC. If a chip is programmable it has an instruction set, while your TV may have several ICs in it, if you look at older TV's they are probably likely not to have "an instruction set" at all. They might not even have IC's in them. I think CPU's had 3-4% of the IC market. While rest of the chips are all mostly non-programmable chips, without an instruction set. FPGA's showed up recently and these things can actually be programmed with a completely new instruction set each time... CPU's aren't the "fastest" way of doing things, they are simply more versatile. My best guess is the TILE64 probably bridges a little between FPGAs and CPUs, and ALL of what it is capable of doing will be dependent on its instruction set. Being able to pipeline processes inside the TILE64 for example would probably something crucial to its design.