The 80-Year-Old Architecture Holding Back AI
I came across an IBM Research post recently (https://research.ibm.com/blog/why-von-neumann-architecture-is-impeding-the-power-of-ai-computing ). It turns out one of the biggest things holding back AI computing isn’t some exotic new problem—it’s a design choice from 1945. The culprit? The von Neumann architecture that’s powered nearly every computer. The Problem: A Traffic Jam Inside Your Computer Picture a brilliant chef (the processor) and a massive pantry (memory) separated by a narrow hallway. For each step of a recipe, the chef must walk down the hallway, grab a single ingredient, and walk back. This round trip is repeated thousands of times. That’s essentially what happens when AI models run on traditional computers. ...