RR007: What if Moore's Law is over? with AJ Guillon & Peter Richards, YetiWare

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Moore's Law slowing down and the resulting hardware-software mismatch in modern computing.

Realities Remixed, formerly known as Cloud Realities, launches a new season exploring the intersection of people, culture, industry and tech. One of the most fundamental challenges in modern computing is the growing hardware–software mismatch. As Moore’s Law slows and performance gains no longer come “for free,” software built on Turing‑era, sequential assumptions struggles to keep pace with today’s highly parallel, heterogeneous hardware. That disconnect is now a central constraint on innovation. This week, Dave, Esmee, and Rob are joined by Peter Richards, advisor and AJ Guillon, founder of YetiWare , to explore why this mismatch persists, what it means for organizations today, and how emerging approaches may redefine the relationship between software and hardware in the years ahead. TLDR 00:35 – Introduction 01:04 – Hang out: How deep can we go, and what is the history of the compute era? 07:00 – Dig in: The power demands of LLMs, data centers, scale, size and potato chips 15:35 – Conversation with Peter Richards and AJ Guillon 55:31 – Spring cleanup with a chainsaw and cycling Guest Peter Richards: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-richards-3b99688/ AJ Guillon…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dave Chapman, Esmee van de Giessen, Rob Kernahan

Guests: Peter Richards, AJ Guillon

Topics covered

• Moore's Law
• hardware-software mismatch
• innovation
• parallel computing
• technology
• data centers

Keywords

• Moore's Law
• hardware
• software
• innovation
• parallel computing
• data centers
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: YetiWare, Capgemini

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