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srcmap on Nov 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Homebrew Cray-1A

Cray 1 was built 45 years ago. Iphone is 10x that system today.

Fun to imagine what the computer might look like 45 years from now - everyone will have a gigabits quantum computer in their pocket?

joefourier on Nov 2, 2019 [–]

Do note that that blogpost is almost ten years old. At peak power, the latest iPhone is now probably around 3000x faster than the Cray 1 if you count the GPU (although finding FP64 performance stats for the iPhone is bit challenging).

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