{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Microarch Club","title":"10: Thomas Sohmers","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/20b15fe2\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4951,"description":"Thomas Sohmers joins to discuss dropping out of high school at age 17 to start a chip company, lessons from the successes and failures of past processor architectures, the history of VLIW, and the new AI hardware appliances he and his team are building at Positron AI.\nThomas on X: https://twitter.com/trsohmers\nThomas' Site: https://www.trsohmers.com/\n\nShow Notes\nWelcome Thomas Sohmers (00:01:22)\nGrowing Up Around Computers (00:03:13)\nDigging Beneath the Software (00:05:56)\nLearning Python, C, and Arduino C (00:07:05) https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/\nLearning About the Thiel Fellowship (00:07:44) https://thielfellowship.org/\nStarting Research at MIT at age 14 (00:09:24)\nDropping out of High School and Starting Thiel Fellowship at age 17 (00:10:36)\nMIT ISN Lab (00:11:09) https://isn.mit.edu/\nEvaluating ARM Processors for High Performance Computing (00:11:28) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family\nARM Calxeda Processor (00:11:38) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calxeda\nhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/what-the-death-of-calxeda-means-for-the-future-of-microservers/\nScaling Out Low Power Processors for Data Center Compute (00:12:27)\nIncorporating REX Computing (00:13:42) http://rexcomputing.com/\nhttps://fortune.com/2015/07/21/rex-computing/\nFacebook and the Open Compute Project (00:14:18) https://www.opencompute.org/\nDeciding Against Arm (00:14:49)\nARMv8 (00:15:12) https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm/armv8\nDeciding to Design a New Architecture (00:16:26)\nMultiflow (00:18:23) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiflow\nGood Architecture Ideas from the Past (00:18:35)\nThomas' Talk at Stanford (00:18:59) https://youtu.be/ki6jVXZM2XU\nRISC vs. CISC Debate (00:19:37) https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/risc/risccisc/\nSPARC Instruction Set (00:20:04) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC\nThe Importance of History (00:20:58)\nRISC Came Before CISC (00:23:08)\nCDC 6600 (00:23:20) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600\nLoad-Store Architecture...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/X9h6vYRHR96KHnkrkRvOx2mmIecnvZota9TwAN_K-qY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5NDgwLzE3MDcy/Mzc4NjgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}