7 Aug
2007
7 Aug
'07
3:39 p.m.
On 8/6/07, Monty J. Harder mjharder@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/6/07, David Nicol davidnicol@gmail.com wrote: "memory with an onboard processor" instead of
"processor with onboard memory."
What's the difference?
marketing emphasis; is the new chip marketed as a cpu or a memory chip? The separation between cpu and memory chips is so ingrained in the industry that MWOP consititutes a disruptive innovation, while PWOM is what we have now, with processor cache serving to optimize memory access (and complicate SMP.)
MWOP architecture would be like a NUMA node, whereas PWOM is a CPU with a cache.