My take on this is a little bit dumb, but, once upon a time, many moons ago, I thought I understood the CPU I acted upon, I could peek and poke and look up what was where. I mostly wanted faster, but what i got was more complex.
Is there a way to just get faster without the complexity. What would a new cpu architecture and OS look like if we started again? is there room for open hardware to save us all?
My CPU's sitting at 30C right now. It maybe climbs to 48C if Chrome's being stupid, and 50+C if I'm doing something mildly taxing. I've never made it go beyond 60C IIRC.
So, modern CPUs are so efficient that they're simply just never hitting their maximum throughput. I think that's pretty incredible.
The sad thing about CPUs that don't use modern (superscalar, multi-stage, microarched, etc) design is that they just can't keep up.
And people's OCD about speed and (more frequently) parallelization nowadays drives what they'll buy. Something had better have a killer feature if it isn't fast or highly parallel.
So it's possible, but a huge headache. Whatever you built would likely be highly purpose-specific.
Is there a way to just get faster without the complexity. What would a new cpu architecture and OS look like if we started again? is there room for open hardware to save us all?