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While I’ve been down the rabbit hole of nostalgic computing, others are looking at the coming century of computing.
TL;DR (but please do read the post, as it’s good), the end of Moore’s Law is going to set off a “Cambrian Explosion” of new hardware designs.
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I’ve not seen that prediction before, and it seems likely to me. In looking back at the 1970s era of personal computing, what held it back wasn’t just the 8-bit processors and minimal amounts of memory, but the high cost of custom chips, a.k.a. ASICs.
Here in 2022 we have companies that let anyone design a PCB at home, and have physical copies of that PCB delivered in days. No doubt some fab within this decade will do the same for chip designs, first at a cost medium size companies can afford, then startups, then for every home hobbyist.
It took me only a few hours to code up my 652402 idea in Verilog, and from Verilog to working silicon is only a few more hours of work, most of which can be guided, if not fully automated, with software.