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		jostmey on June 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD Tackles Coming “Chiplet” Revolution With New C... Writing code to run in parallel across a large number of small "chips" is probably the future of programming. In this sense, new programming languages like Julia might prove useful?

wolf550e on June 24, 2018 [–]

This "future of programming" was very widely announced in 2005: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm

insulanus on June 24, 2018 | [–]

Yes, and in the 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation

And the 80s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer

And, aw heck. We knew it was coming :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing

pjmlp on June 25, 2018 | | [–]

You forgot this nice one, :)

https://www.parallax.com/catalog/microcontrollers/propeller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller

insulanus on June 25, 2018 | | [–]

Totally. I wanted one of those so bad - thanks for adding it! :)

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