Keynote. The Future of Microprocessors | Sophie Wilson | JuliaCon 2018

Sophie Wilson is a Broadcom Fellow and Distinguished Engineer. Her inventions helped to transform the computing landscape. Sophie and Steve Furber’s development and codesign of the BBC Micro processor led to their development of the ARM processor; today the ARM processor powers virtually every mobile phone and tablet in the world. By 1999, Sophie developed the Firepath SIMD LIW processor, for which she led the design of the instruction set, and she co-founded Element 14, which was later acquired by Broadcom. Sophie is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society and an honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. She has an honorary doctorate of science from Cambridge University. Time Stamps:
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[@peanutnutter1]

Thanks @TechTechPotato for linking to this

[@greywolf271]

This talk brings me down to earth. I knew there was a reason why I still have my original SYM-1 6502

[@elstyr]

Great talk! She is so knowledgable. I would have loved to be taught by her. She's a bit harsh on Intel and CISC, but that's deserved, I agree ;).

[@thedanyesful]

"So, predictions are very hard to make, especially about the future."

[@paulyaron2410]

A great question with an amazing answer starting at 41:45, but an hour of my life not wasted.

[@andreikarakozov2531]

Great lecture and especially questions! Thanks!

[@PeSaHazard]

Awesome, thank you.

[@metalmolisher666]

Well, for graphics cards the speedup per processor she showed on her graphs does not seem to hold true.

[@123argonaut]

This is not my domain. What does she mean? Todays SoC can't make use of all transistors at any given instance, because then the SoC would overheat, at the same time she says that the future is parallelism when it comes to software code, but wouldn't parallelism require more transistors to be used at any given instance? Sorry for stupid question. Cheers!

[@patdbean]

She is saying it is only worth doing if the task lends itself to parrelisation . Raytracing yes, ADSL , maybe running Facebook. And only if you can cool it, and you have unlimited space cooling and power. But in a laptop or a phone.......

[@123argonaut]

@@patdbean Okay, thank you for the clarification. So, little progress left to be made with the personal computer, at least the way it is constructed now, in a traditional sense. Although, it is hard to call EUV lithography a traditional method, but you get what I mean.

[@akaiappears]

42:37 F programmers

[@ps3301]

Stop buying Intel to force them to abandon x86 and move to riscv and arm

[@radicalrodriguez5912]

that's a man