By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026When Moore's Law tapped out - when the pace at which transistors got smaller and computers got faster slowed and plateaued, and the expense of even modest performance gains climbed infinitywards - computing changed with it. 16/ 3611
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026Parallel computing - putting more cores on a chip, more chips on a board, more boards in a system - took off, as chipmakers and system builders switched from a focus on building their computers tall to building them *wide*. 17/ 1492
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026As parallel computing took off, so did parallel applications. This is the beginning of the graphics revolution, as GPUs - components made up of many, many low-powered computers - became more central to academic research and commercial product roadmaps. 18/ 1511
