In The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Hamming gives this amazing sigmoidal formulation for the growth rate of computing power: e^(22(1-e^(-t/20))), with t=0 in 1943. That predicts 2.2 GHz for 2019, with is rather remarkably close to where we are.
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How much could be enabled by faster clock-rates vs parallelism? Photo/video/audio, ML/ CV, AR/VR seem mostly about parallelism. Increases in parallel compute for AI has been mind-boggling. Beyond what I'd dream for clockrates. Faster clocks could make faster Javascript... Hmmm...
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Well, personally I've believed since the 80s that parallelism will win in the end. But I've been repeatedly too optimistic (i.e., flat wrong) about how rapidly that will happen.
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