Computer Architecture
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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Rao: Computer architecture has remained fundamentally unchanged for 80 years
“We've been building largely the same kind of computer for 80 years. We went digital back in the 19 forties”
Feldman: Chip architecture begins by deciding what not to be good at
“One of the hardest things in computer architecture, and one of the first things you do is you decide what you're not going to be good at. I'm going to build chip. What am I not going to be good at? We're not going to be good at general purpose compute. We're n…”
Scott Wu: Enterprise engineering still requires humans for architecture reasoning
“And I think on that side, you know, I think for the time being, that's going to be primarily focused on software engineers. Just because, you know, it's while we're still working with these layers of abstraction, you still really need to have all of these Kind…”
Feldman: Chip architects must solve hard problems generally, not guess layers
“The trick in architecture is to solve hard problems in a general way, so you don't have to rely on product management to sort of guess what, what's the next cool layer type, right?”