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In article <1992Nov12.220301.23915@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, caperkin@ursa11.law.utah.edu (Charles Perkins) writes:

> Assuming good density, how many of the above could we put on a chip
> using today's processes (We can make 16 Megabit dram chips... but dram is
> very regular.)

> How many transistors would it take to make a minimally sized 32-bit chip?
> Optimized for transistor count, not cycle speed, op-code simplicity, or
> speed of design.

> This caught my attention because of an idea I have been toying with, which
> I have decided to call the Fractal Logic Asynchronous Scalable Circuit.
> (Basically a 'memory' where every cell is a finite state autonoma 'conversing'
> with the cells next to it.)  I figure eight thousand of the little guys on a 
> chip, simple though they might be individually, could get some serious
> computation done.

Why bother?  Why not just make a programmable systolic array processor?
There's been very little cool stuff done with them in recent years, and
it seems to me that with the right kind of control logic, you could get
some rather serious performance.

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