Ten Cent CPUs
2025-07-04
In general my view is formed on biases towards $0.10 CPUS, like what we wished for in the 1970s.
What could we do with $1000.00 if CPUs only cost $0.10 each?
In a sense, the internet is answering this question, but, it is based on software technology for $100.00 CPUs (Linux, time-sharing, et al).
I think that such old-fashioned programming technology is holding us back from inventing much more interesting devices. The stuff I call 0D (now PBP), is a simulation of that kind of thing, i.e. a programming language that takes a step towards the idea of cleaving every component off onto its own CPU without dragging all of Linux and PL and OS technologies along with them.
This perspective leads towards using existing things, like Python/JS/Odin/pipelines/etc. as new-age bags of transistors forming "assembly language" for a different dimension in programming.
Further
Arith transpiler, from a single grammar to Python and Javascript and Common Lisp and WASM all at once. [WIP - experimental]
See Also
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