{"id":16,"date":"2007-12-24T04:55:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T04:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/2007\/12\/24\/faster-chips-are-leaving-programmers-in-their-dust\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T04:55:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T04:55:16","slug":"faster-chips-are-leaving-programmers-in-their-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he was chief executive of Intel in the 1990s, Andrew S. Grove would often talk about the \u201csoftware spiral\u201d \u2014 the interplay between ever-faster microprocessor chips and software that required ever more computing power. The potential speed of chips is still climbing, but now the software they run is having trouble keeping up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/17\/technology\/17chip.html?pagewanted=print\" target=\"_blank\"> More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he was chief executive of Intel in the 1990s, Andrew S. Grove would often talk about the \u201csoftware spiral\u201d \u2014 the interplay between ever-faster microprocessor chips and software that required ever more computing power. The potential speed of chips is still climbing, but now the software they run is having trouble keeping up. More&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,37,85,90],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tips-advanced","tag-computer-chips","tag-computers","tag-multi-threading","tag-operating-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}