Monster Chip like Monster Home

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Monster Chip like Monster Home?

• what San Franciscans have come to know as a
  monster home--a 6,000-square-foot behemoth that
  would tower five stories high, casting neighbors
  in its shadow and stretching clear to its lot
  lines.
• San Franciscans Fight Monster Home Invasion,
  LA Times, 7/13/00
• Bay Area cities using ordinances to stop them
• Era of wretched excess, homes chips
• branch prediction buffers bigger than
  minicomputer memory!
• Sustaining Moores Law vs. MIPS/?

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Sustaining Moores Law vs. MIPS/?
Intel MPU die
RISC II die

• Scaled RISC II about 1/1000th size of current MPU

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Alternative universe

• Inspiration Google
• Search engine for world (20 more queries/month)
• Economical, scalable build block PC
• today 6000 PCs, 12000 disks (1 petabyte)
• Sub 1mm2 MPU core as building block
• (32-bit RISC MPU as the Nand gate)
• Special purpose chips with 100s of economical
  MPUs vs. Monster MPUs
• Cluster on a chip enable amazing MIPS/,
  MIPS/watt for applications