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"Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power" - Chuck Moore (2013)

Chuck Moore, inventor of Forth, presents GreenArrays' 144-core asynchronous chip at Strange Loop 2013. He explains how idle cores draw almost no power and how tight code minimizes energy use.

Why HN readers recommended it

It is the favorite recommendation for understanding Moore's minimalist, low-power multi-core designs and stack machines.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Strange Loop Conference
Topic
low-power multicore forth chips
Format
talk
Level
advanced
HN recommenders in dataset
7
HN mentions in dataset
14
Recommendation years in dataset
2021–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • This talk by Chuck Moore at Strange Loop was amazing [VIDEO] "Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power"

    juliangamble on Hacker News · 2021-05
    In Forth – The Early Years (1991)
  • Chuck Moore (creator of Forth [1] ) has a ultra-low power processor that is a fascinating possible solution: [VIDEO] [1] Forth programming language: [LINK]

    thesuperbigfrog on Hacker News · 2022-02
    In Frugal Computing (2021)
  • Look at the Green Arrays F18: [LINK] This is such a simple machine. I am planning to make a tiny emulator as a puzzle for my site. One could probably write an emulator in 80 lines of Go. Here's a clear description of what each …

    bugfix-66 on Hacker News · 2022-11
    In Stack Computers: the new wave (1989) [pdf]

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