rabid futurist on the loose! ( I jest)

[David Nicol]

On 8/6/07, Monty J. Harder <mjharder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/6/07, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:
>  "memory with an onboard processor" instead of
> > "processor with onboard memory."
>
> What's the difference?
>

marketing emphasis; is the new chip marketed as a cpu or a memory chip?
The separation between cpu and memory chips is so ingrained in the industry
that MWOP consititutes a disruptive innovation, while PWOM is what we
have now, with processor cache serving to optimize memory access (and
complicate SMP.)

MWOP architecture would be like a NUMA node, whereas PWOM is a
CPU with a cache.