On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 08:27:24 +0100
The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> Well I knew that already. More to the point it looks like increasing
> memory speed is also at an end.

 The writing was on the wall for that when CPU cycle times went down
much faster than memory access times.

> And although HD=>SSD was a huge step up, thats pretty much done and
> dusted.

 It looked that way just before NVMe, I saw some discussions around
the possibility that DRAM may become obsolete with NVMe SSDs filling cache
lines directly.

> Only one place left to go. Tackle bloatware :-)

 Nope there's still power consumption to attack or rather being
attacked. Run your mind back to the time a bleeding edge PC was about as
powerful as a RPi3 and consumed the thick end of a hundred watts.

 Big data centres don't particularly need faster processors or
faster memory they already hold tens of thousands of processors and
hundreds of thousands of discs - they do need denser storage and lower
power consumption.

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