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In article <TOMS.89Nov15114003@omews44.intel.com> toms@omews44.intel.com (Tom Shott) writes:
;> Subject: Re: RISC vs CISC (rational discussion, not religious wars)

;> As we top 50 MHz for chip speed the biggest problem becomes getting data on
;> and off chip. You start needing delay cycles between reads and writes on a
;> IO pin to turn the bus around or a chip w/ lots of pins to get data in and
;> out faster. Putting a cache on the die has been beat into the ground.

;> One solution that has not been discussed is flip chip technology. In flip
;> chip technology many die are mounted directly on a ceramic carrier.
;> . . .

Another solution that I haven't seen much discussion of is using
optical fibers with an ultra-high-speed serial protocol as a method
for transporting data.

As the communication delays are non-trivial, this might be more
applicable to a vector machine, or to an architecure which can deal
with structured data (e.g. messages) than to a super-scalar
architecture, but there are a lot of good options in vector machines,
et al.

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