The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology.
The article explores how as of early 2021 technological and economic forces are pushing computing away from general purpose and toward specialization. The term general purpose technology (GBT) was coined for products like computers that have broad technical applicability and where product improvemen...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 64 - 73 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Mar2021
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| Sumario: | The article explores how as of early 2021 technological and economic forces are pushing computing away from general purpose and toward specialization. The term general purpose technology (GBT) was coined for products like computers that have broad technical applicability and where product improvement and market growth could fuel one another. The author also describes how as improvements in central processing units (CPUs) slow, and thus applications move to specialized processors, graphics processing units (GPUs) are becoming more specialized. |
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