Was Moore's law, now something else, parallelism

[Richard Pieri]

On Jul 13, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
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> Any thoughts?

I think that you're stuck on clock speeds.  The original Core architecture breezed past Pentium 4 at lower clock speeds and significantly lower power consumption.  Each successive iteration of Core has been faster out of proportion to the clock speed increases that you've been conditioned to expect.  There have been, and are, comparable developments with POWER and ARM architectures, and that's not even beginning to touch on what's happening with GPUs.

--Rich P.