A chip full of WIZes - page 1

The WIZ is not intended to be used as a stand-alone processor. The simplicity of the WIZ is predicated on the assumption that it will live on a chip with many other WIZes.

While it can function as a stand-alone microprocessor, as such it would have a number of limitations. It has no provision for subroutine calls; it supports no interrupts; it has no inherent memory management and uses no caches. To name a few.

Yet it is exactly this lack of "baggage" that makes the processor so very simple, small, and fast.

    "The best part is no part. It weighs nothing. Costs nothing. Can't go wrong."
     -- Elon Musk.

Each of these "limitations" is solved or made unnecessary when multiple tightly-coupled WIZes exist and cooperate.

And because WIZes can be very small, we can put many of them onto a single chip. 

An SE-1 chip is not just many WIZes. It is much more than the sum of its parts. When we have many WIZes, something new *emerges* in the aggregate.