Amon@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm 5 (ELI5)@lemmy.world · 11 hours agoELI5: Why couldn't we just manufacture thousands of tiny 8086 cores on a single chip and run everything in parallel?message-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up121arrow-down1message-squareELI5: Why couldn't we just manufacture thousands of tiny 8086 cores on a single chip and run everything in parallel?Amon@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm 5 (ELI5)@lemmy.world · 11 hours agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareShadowAlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-210 hours agoBecause a 8086 is really fucking slow, and writing highly multi threaded code is way more difficult.
minus-squareAmon@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 hours agoStill in 5yo mode: why couldn’t you run the 8086s at an order of magnitude faster considering they would be much smaller?
Because a 8086 is really fucking slow, and writing highly multi threaded code is way more difficult.
Still in 5yo mode: why couldn’t you run the 8086s at an order of magnitude faster considering they would be much smaller?
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