End of Moore's law?

Edward Ned Harvey blu-Z8efaSeK1ezqlBn2x/YWAg at public.gmane.org
Sat Jul 10 18:12:48 EDT 2010


> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On
> Behalf Of Mark Woodward
> 
> Moore's law as we have understood it may have stopped providing value

Moore's law has been dead for about 5 years.  When Moore's law died, they
just started doing the only thing they knew how to do ... start putting more
cores onto a single die.  Network speeds have not signfiicantly increased.
CPU's have not significantly increased.  (Although there have been some
improvements, it's definitely *not* what we were calling Moore's law.)  

Memory has grown.  And disk sizes (but not speeds) have grown.

All the effort now is smaller power, lower cost.  Performance is barely
growing anymore.






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