Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Edwin Abbott
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Escaping from Flatland
As a community, we have grudgingly and guardedly recognized the need for multicore processors. However, we are still clinging tenaciously to our dual in-line memory module (DIMM), two-dimensional packaging and double data rate (DDR) memory designs. We need a visitor from the third dimension, preaching the gospel of chip stacking to the denizens of chip…