>Olofsson has a new idea - or, specifically, a variation on an old one...it was common for a central processor to have a 'math co-processor' chip alongside it - a secondary processor which was designed specifically to carry out floating point arithmetic at speeds significantly faster than the main processor This is exactly how people are currently using GPUs right now. How is this architecture better than a Fermi? >"…
"A few thousand Ph.D. theses have been sunk into parallelizing imperative programs." This waste of talent continues to piss me off to no end. Why would people willingly spend time on this problem?
Because the reward of a breakthrough is extremely high.