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This article is not hitting on one of the directions we can go to continue Moore's law. Namely, upwards. Intel demonstrated a 3d pentium 4 back in 2004, the Hig
by Sanddancer 11y ago
This article is not hitting on one of the directions we can go to continue Moore's law. Namely, upwards. Intel demonstrated a 3d pentium 4 back in 2004, the High Bandwidth Memory packages on AMD's latest chips are 3d, nVidia's ramping up their own HBM technology for their next GPUs, and there are a ton of active research programs on how to keep yields high as dies are stacked. It may be the end of Moore's law on a flat surface, but there's still quite a few places to go.
- hga 11y agoI'm not sure that gains you much, but we'll see. Different is the move to large to potentially huge numbers of layers in making NAND flash. Samsung is shooting for 100 layers and 1 terabit on a single die (!).
- mud_dauber 11y ago3D stacking doesn't answer, strictly speaking, the issues with Moore's Law limits. It instead addresses the very real problem of getting data to/from the processor to external memory. Pins are expensive and the signal speeds aren't keeping up with processor speeds.