CCF Chips 2022: The Post Golden Age of Computer Architectures, What's Next to the Deep Learning Processors? 2022-08-05 talk

Invited by Prof. LI, Chao of SJTU, I attended the 1st CCF Chips conference, and gave an online talk to the session of Outstanding Young Scholars in Computer Architecture. In the talk I shared the results and extra thoughts from a paper under (single-blind) review, Rescue to the Curse of Universality. Since the results are still undergoing peer review, the points are for reference only.

Take home messages:

• The Curse: It is impossible to build a computer that is both universal and efficient in logic circuits.
• REnc Architecture: It is sufficient to be an efficient architecture that taking the locality as a scale-invariant constraint.
• The results suggest that today’s DSAs may be over-specialized. There are theoretical rooms of universality while keeping the efficiency optimal.

With the laws from the semiconductor industry, we predict that DLPs are going to be more universal, more applicable, more standarized, and more systematic.

(The talk is only given in Mandarin currently.)