Sorry, in 10 years these computers won't need you any more to do the animation.

+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky If Moore's law still holds for the next ten years in terms of speed doubling every 18 months (which is not actually what Moore said but whatever) and that's becoming somewhat of a big if, something taking 2 years will still take over a week.

Ten years from now we'll be seeing the first consumer quantum computers, possibly with light-based processors. Moore's Law may or may not apply, since it's already started to fail -- two years to doubling instead of eighteen months. No telling what effect new paradigms and technologies will have on it.

batfan1939 In ten years there will be things for consumers that we don't even know how to build in a lab yet? I don't think so. It's not even clear optical computers provide any advantage over electronic computers. Quantum computers will probably always be some kind of coprocessor in general-purpose computers.

+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky Cannot you just get it rendered on a render farm?

+DJDavid98 Great, now I can't un-see that :P

+DJDavid98 lol, never noticed that they were all shaky cam.... I think this is one of the few classes of video where it's helpful, as it creates artificial action and engages the viewer more than static shots.... Interesting.... I wonder if it's intentional...

+KevintheBooth It's a feature!

@@PIXELST0RM link?

+lmiddleman Yeah - I need to know which one is correct!

+Greyarea23 It should be computer tape for storing GDS file for making "mask set".

+Eddy Yau i think I was wrong, actually, though haven't had complete confirmation. I think it does refer to the computer tape going out the door...

+Jem Davies Since 16 FF+ is very expansive, does 500 test chip produced by MPW?

I concur. Chips were always designed in cad. You can down load open source and see the design of the 6502 chip for example ! In a normal PC now.

High tech manufacturing zones = those sorts of places.

@@tylerdurden3722 cheaper place to produce = those sorts of places.

@@tukangbobo Afganistan, Venice, Antarctica = those sorts of places

why Texas tho, isn't it expensive to produce it in the U.S ?

@@tylerdurden3722 Atlantis, Haiti, and Mars = those sorts of places.

Exactly what I suspected. Thank you.

+The Hoax Hotel Totally agree with the commenter above me. if you like the idea of designing your own chips, an FPGA could be the way for you.

+The Hoax Hotel Well, you might also want a microwave oven full of oxygen and a massive metal chamber from the 60s, along with an IBM 5150, and other computers to transfer data between 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppies. That's how they do it at "Canada's Capital University"

Yeah, well I want a unicorn, but you don't see me gettin one of those any time soon, do ya?

+The Hoax Hotel If you rich, you can use old process to do it. It cost much cheaper.

+Meep Walrus Well I never. Hipster Canada.

+William Young VHDL, Verilog or some other hardware description language. Here's an overview: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language I think the best way to learn such a language is to buy a cheap FPGA and program it.

+William Young - VHDL is a wonderful language for programming FPGA's. I don't know how well it scales in terms of a massive commercial product, that is the ARM architecture, but it works wonders for smaller projects.

+IchBinEin The language it self should work just fine even on massive projects like a Cortex-A57. The synthesis and place & route software is another story though. No doubt it will be vastly different than what you get for FPGA's.

+IchBinEin Verilog is more common than VHDL, as I know.

What kind of code were you compiling?

+Brascofarian Yea... i thought the same things... places that are..... ? what.. warm and far away?

It's a not well explained, but some people will know Taiwan, Austin, areas of China etc to be huge tech manufacturing locations. Just one of those assumptions made that turns out not to be that clear.

+matsv201 And at least one of them you run the risk of being shot in!

TheBluMeeny I would say.. that might be two. Taiwan is somewhat of.. maybe not the texas but more of a miniature US of Asia... Taiwan use to be china. But when Mao occupied china all the industrialist fleed to Taiwan with the navy. This left communist china with out a navy so they could simply not attack Taiwan

matsv201 I am aware of the history of Taiwan. I was just making a light hearted joke, nothing more.

Hope I am not too late, but hopefully someone else might benefit. He means languages like Verilog, SystemVerilog and VHDL, and their corresponding IDEs, e.g. Vivado.

Similarly, hardware also gets debugged and patched

tea cheers for light wave radio four quadrant pixel dance?

Never do that with anyone.

+Raymond “RooMan” Lobban They would obviously re-use the majority of their previous designs and only improve upon a few area's in each iteration. Designing chips now a days isn't really that different from writing software. Instead of C++ or java, they use VHDL or verilog. As you said, they simply copy the parts of the design that hasn't changed.

+leppie The mainstream-discussed Intel's bugs were always in microcode (Pentium FDIV, Halt and Catch Fire, Skylake), not the chips themselves. ARM chips don't use microcode, they are therefore much simpler and easier to test. (This has a lot to do with that Intel uses CISC instructions while ARM uses RISC. Intel's instructions are designed to be easy to use while ARM's to be easy to implement. Since almost nobody programmes in assembly anymore, guess who's better for today's world.) On the other hand, there were a few bugs during the years as well. If you can get hold of ARM documentation, look for errata.

+Jan Sten Adámek Thanks for the feedback. I dont know much about the microcode aspect, but the was the FDIV Pentium bug not fixable with microcode? I would not have expected a recall/class-action-suit if it was fixable by microcode, unless the fix was actually too large to be addressed in microcode storage.

leppie It was not possible to update microcode in those early Pentiums, next-gen Pentium Pro was the first that can be updated by software.

+Jan Sten Adámek And again I learn something new :D

+leppie there was a pretty interesting talk on chipdesign on the 32c3, which also touches the hardware-bug / microcode stuff. watch?v=eDmv0sDB1Ak

+Mert Oral I highly recommend that you do that! Sorry but I don't know of any website or utube channel at the top of my head. My suggestion to you is to pick a programming language (java or c++ are good choices for a beginner) and search for beginner tutorials on google. I've been programming since I was 8 and even though it's not related to my occupation or studies, I do it on a daily basis as a hobby that has brought me a lot of joy. The good thing about programming is that once you fully master one of the languages, it becomes trivial to learn and even master the rest (in a matter of weeks).

+Mert Oral Handmade Hero (handmadehero.org) and Learn Python the Hard Way (learnpythonthehardway.org) are what I can think of right now that are both completely free and get you started without you having to dig through stuff. Nand to Tetris (nand2tetris.org) covers building your own hardware from Nand gates (and DFFs for memory) up through assembly, compilers, operating systems, and games, but you need to buy the book for everything past chapter 6. The first six chapters are available for free online and cover most of the hardware and introduce you to the assembly language used in the book. You could also look at reddit.com/r/learnprogramming for more resources. The sidebar on the right has a lot of information, so read it before you post anything.

Ørjan Solli vhdl verilog systemverilog

+Joseph Nicholas Sorry in the end he did mention FPGA modeling. Arm Cortex chips are great!

That is the sound a phone makes in the UK if you leave it off the hook... >Sean

+Lobster with Mustard and Rice US billion, 1000 millions.

Stoppi thanks

I thought the European Billion has been outdated and now just use 1,000 Million?

Mat Smith XyllianPC is right. Numberphile has made a video on it. "How big is a billion". It's interesting, pls watch it

+Lobster with Mustard and Rice What a backwards-ass continent. You guys can keep trying to change simple things that have been established for large amounts of time. But there is only one type of billion, 1,000 millions.

he definitely meant a million lol

+Charles Miller It really is a billion. A couple of years ago I remember they sold 7 billion in a year. No doubt they sell a few more now. Think each mobile phone, tablet and many other devices contain several ARM based chips.

+Kris H. A billion CPU chips a month, 700 million Graphics processors a year

+Charles Miller kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9B_fc9pzLi0qYU.html

+TJ.Lewis He didn't. Arm shipped ~12 billion chips last year

They're also obscenely expensive at gate counts for projects of any reasonable complexity. Maybe worth it for prototyping, but not cost-effective for mass production.

Rob Mckennie You're gonna have to qualify that with exactly how many logic gates you're talking about. There's low-end for everything. If you want to simulate something on the order of a Cortex-A series, it will cost dearly.

Mike Trieu Why would you want to emulate a device of that kind of complexity? I don't think the kind of hobbyist to whom I was recommending an FPGA would have any kind of need to emulate a modern CPU.

Rob Mckennie Oh, well you didn't clarify "hobbyist" in your OP. Also, "hobbyist" is somewhat of a nebulous term, too, when you have folks like Bunnie Huang literally reverse-engineering his own CPUs for the Novena project.

LegIt?

Nope. The future is looking to be FPGA-ASIC hybrids with with home computers turning into a terminal on a mainframe. I wish it was otherwise. I love open source hardware, but look up the Xilinx Amazon partnership that was recently announced. Then ask why Intel bought out Altera. The end of Moore's Law will result in the expansion of FPGAs. FPGAs are capable of running a local user interface with remote software faster than a consumer grade system with local storage. Why the shift? Proprietary software security. You won't have access to the complete software on a terminal based system. The future will be the 1960's mainframe computer version 2.0... if open source projects like the linux kernal don't take most of the market share first. -Jake

@@UpcycleElectronics So you expect everyone to just dump their freedom into garbage? No sane person will use centralized resources for private purposses. Yeah Linux kernel is ubiqutous today and going strong.

@@GeorgWilde is 2% ubiquitous?

Scartch Sketch,etchy pig sales?

Advanced Risc Machines. It's a plural.

Gediminas B bachelor electrical engineering/ computer engineer or where I live bachelor electrical engineering and then a master computer engineering

+ahenryb1 Good on you for at least acknowledging that your intuition of how English works isn't a universal law.

+ahenryb1 Depends on which side of the pond you're on. In American English, "ARM" is a company, and thus a singular entity, so properly conjugating "do not" yields "doesn't" instead of "don't". In British, "ARM" might be plural, because British English is different, in which case "don't" would be correct.

"ARM does not fabricate chips" or "ARM only designs chips" would have been fine titles too. In american english, the phrase "ARM don't make computer chips" is what we call "Hickish", it sounds as if its in a southern vernacular, much like "I ain't gonna eat them chips"

Ian Walker And yet our version of English in the U.S. is only one of the many equally valid variations on the language.

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+Blackwater Park For an explanation of why 'don't' is perfectly acceptable, see the Wikipedia article on "Collective noun[s]," particularly the section titled "Metonymic merging of grammatical number." Or, if you don't want to be bored to tears, you could just take my word for it :) .

Zak Zennii according to Cambridge it doesn't matter in British English.

+Meep Walrus I think this should be the right title. No more confusion with don't/doesn't

+Trabber Shir The sorts of places with booming tech sectors.

+Adam Leuer Hehe...Texas is certainly *booming* Get it, cause guns and 'splosions.

+Austin Pinheiro but they taste the same right?

jklw10 nop

yeah but computer chips are editable

Malappapas only if your runnon on a potatoeos

Papalu Pikalo? Is that you?

ender_scythe doesn't matter in British