Before Cerebras, there was Amdahl: How legendary US engineer was way ahead of his time with wafer-scale integration and plotted supercomputer performance for the humble PC 43 years ago
Date:
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:10:00 +0000
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How Gene Amdahl turned IBMs mainframe blueprint into a rival empire and gambled on wafer-scale silicon decades before the AI era made it viable.
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Gene Amdahl, taken March 13 2008
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/before-cerebras-there-was-amdahl-how-legendary-u s-engineer-was-way-ahead-of-his-time-with-wafer-scale-integration-and-plotted- supercomputer-performance-for-the-humble-pc-43-years-ago
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