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John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · lecture · Watch on YouTube

Computer architecture & CPUs

What it is

Hennessy and Patterson's 2018 Turing Award lecture at ISCA, A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture. It covers domain-specific hardware, security, open instruction sets and agile chip development.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN repeatedly recommends it as the best overview of the past, present and future of chip performance after Moore's law.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “I consistently recommend Hennessy and Patterson's Turing Award Talk[1] as a good overview of the past, present and future of chip performance.”

    Overview of past, present and future of chip performance.

    trimbo, 2020-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed”

  2. “it started to make sense.”

    Helped the commenter understand what Oxide does.

    rudedogg, 2020-07 · Recommendation · in “The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video]”

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Topics: turing award, risc, domain-specific architectures, moore's law, risc-v, hennessy and patterson

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