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The days of Moore's law are long dead. Intel's transistors haven't been getting better since 5-6 years now. I wonder what direction the semiconductor industry w
by typon 11y ago
The days of Moore's law are long dead. Intel's transistors haven't been getting better since 5-6 years now. I wonder what direction the semiconductor industry will go in. These are very interesting times.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoMoore's law is about transistor density, not individual thread speed. Transistor density continues to increase. Nvidia's Maxwell is supposed to have over 8 billion transistors on 28nm.
- Gravityloss 11y agoDr Chris Mack's argument is that Moore's law is about price per transistor. That did not decrease in Intel's last process step, and thus they declared Moore's law dead already in 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBrEx-FINEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBrEx-FINEI
- rgbrenner 11y agoIn 2012 Nvidia released Kepler, which had 7 billion transistors, also at 28nm. 3 years to increase transistor counts by 12.5%... Isn't that evidence that Moore's law is in fact dead? If it were not dead, that should be 28 billion transistors in 2015. Instead you're talking about 8.
- CyberDildonics 11y ago1. 14nm, which obviously is a working technology now would mean 4 times the transistors. 2. The Kepler you are talking about was an outlier used in Tesla boards, it is not indicative of the general trend at all. 3. Two cherry picked data points don't mean a trend that has been sustained for 40 years is dead.
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