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It seems to me that there is still some progress to be made in Moore's Law. Maybe not directly by shrinking the manufacturing process, but: AlphaGo requires hu
by js8 11y ago
It seems to me that there is still some progress to be made in Moore's Law. Maybe not directly by shrinking the manufacturing process, but:
AlphaGo requires huge amount of energy and CPU power to accomplish what human brain does in 20W, just using a smallish portion of its capabilities. There must be a plenty of undiscovered architectural improvements to computers that can still kick the Moore Law for a couple years.
- Ericson2314 11y agoMoore's law is about transistor density, and thus is oblivious to architecture.
- typon 11y agoAnd that's exactly what the parent commenter is saying. Moore's law actually wasn't about transistor density in the beginning, it was changed to this definition when they realized transistor density is the only thing increasing exponentially.
- Ericson2314 11y agoWell, Moore's law is stupid however it is defined, and I do also hope for big benefits from architecture (interface and implementation) work. So I guess I shouldn't be picking an argument :). [As an aside, I had thought that Moore's law was originally transistor density, and the hype machine spun it into performance. But like I said, Moore's law is doomed regardless, so whatever.]