{"id":1256,"date":"2016-12-23T06:48:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T06:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2016-12-23T06:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T06:57:37","slug":"sophie-wilson-the-future-of-microprocessors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2016\/12\/23\/sophie-wilson-the-future-of-microprocessors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Wilson &#8211; The future of microprocessors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2014 talk, one of the designers of the original <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARM_architecture\">ARM processor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sophie_Wilson\">Sophie Wilson<\/a>, gives an overview of the history of processors and what to expect in future.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation covers in layman&#8217;s terms topics like Moore&#8217;s law (obviously), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Instruction_pipelining\">pipelining<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amdahl's_law\">parallelism<\/a>, power consumption, heat dissipation, processor specialization and cost of production among other things. As explained, all those aspects are facing difficult challenges that are likely to shape the future of microprocessors, which in turns impacts both hardware and software engineers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b5j_Y-ML3dg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is the same presentation in 2016:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_9mzmvhwMqw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2014 talk, one of the designers of the original ARM processor, Sophie Wilson, gives an overview of the history of processors and what to expect in future. 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