I was having a great conversation with one of my blockchain friends @builderofcastles You can read them in full under this article. He is a very smart person who want to do great things and he presented the following idea:

>Since i won't be able to make Super-dense-Super-small ICs with home grown technology... My idea is to design a chip that is scalable sideways. Like the idea of a 1 bit computer. Then using 32 in parallel to make a 32 bit computer.

>So, i was thinking of dozens of small processors built up on glass (chips on glass) You would have a processor dedicated for all kinds of things we use a CentralPU for now. Like one chip handles I/O. One chip handles memory. One chip handles hard drive access. One chip dedicatedly run the linux kernel.

>This is one of those ideas that is hard to tell if it is just a neat thought experiment, or OMG, this is the way all computers will be in the future...

My thoughts were that this is similar to what is already being tried out with Koinos or what Linux users (especially Arch users) are doing with their customization. With better accessibility for hardware development, we could see a niche of building your own chips as you would build a PC instead of buying something off the shelf.

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I think large scale companies would end up using this modular approach to build their custom chips and sell them to consumers like what they do with those anti-repair laptops. RISC-V has made chip building more accessible. Yet the barriers are still very high. I still believe we will see a future where a niche of consumers would be able to build their own chips the same way some people build their own PCs.

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