matthewb.eth
@matthewb
just occurred to me that in terms of chip architecture, Apple Silicon is Solana (monolithic) and Intel/AMD are Ethereum (modular) not sure how I feel about this
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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
Distributed systems are a different beast than unified memory. ZK for ex. is valuable to crypto as a method of proving state over constrained internet bandwidth, but it's useless for CPU cores on the same motherboard. A better analogy is websites IMHO. The era of portals (Yahoo, MSN, AOL) came and went, that was the monolithic architecture, replaced by Google.
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matthewb.eth
@matthewb
yes agreed, it’s not a perfect metaphor by any means and pretty surface level it just struck me that broadly speaking the “old” chip architecture (AMD/Intel) is losing market share to the “new” architecture with everything on the SoC (Apple Silicon) and how that mirrored Ethereum’s struggles with its modular approach to scaling vs. Solana this cycle.
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