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ther perf gains you're seeing are from architectural and software advancements not pure silicon you cite nvidia as an example against it but nvidia itself clea

ther perf gains you're seeing are from architectural and software advancements not pure silicon you cite nvidia as an example against it but nvidia itself clearly does is not of the same opinion http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/nvidia-vp-claims-that-moore-s-law-is-dead-686997 http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/nvidia-vp-claims-tha... http://www.techdesignforums.com/blog/2015/12/11/iedm-arm-yeric-moores-law-scaling/ http://www.techdesignforums.com/blog/2015/12/11/iedm-arm-yer... http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1329887 http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=13298... http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123529-nvidia-deeply-unhappy-with-tsmc-claims-22nm-essentially-worthless http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123529-nvidia-deeply-un...

kbenson 10y ago
> http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/nvidia-vp-claims-tha.. http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/nvidia-vp-claims-tha.... Poor reporting: Moore's law describes that trend for computing performance – processing speed, memory capacity and the like - to double approximately every two years, named after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore, who first outlined his theory back in 1965. That's not what Moore's law is, and is an example of what I meant when I said it was incorrectly explained for decades. The very first paragraph of the Wikipedia article I originally cited shows this. The other articles seem to be about density scaling, which is only part of what goes into "how many transistors you can fit into a dense integrated circuit." Cores, obviously, allow us to mitigate this to some degree. For example, in this[1] article, you'll find a graph that shows transistor count over time. It's fairly easy to see that as of a couple years ago, Moore's law was still going strong. 1: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/190946-stop-obsessing-over-transistor-counts-theyre-a-terrible-way-of-comparing-chips https://www.extremetech.com/computing/190946-stop-obsessing-...

kbenson 10y ago

> http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/nvidia-vp-claims-tha.. http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/nvidia-vp-claims-tha.... Poor reporting: Moore's law describes that trend for computing performance – processing speed, memory capacity and the like - to double approximately every two years, named after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore, who first outlined his theory back in 1965. That's not what Moore's law is, and is an example of what I meant when I said it was incorrectly explained for decades. The very first paragraph of the Wikipedia article I originally cited shows this. The other articles seem to be about density scaling, which is only part of what goes into "how many transistors you can fit into a dense integrated circuit." Cores, obviously, allow us to mitigate this to some degree. For example, in this[1] article, you'll find a graph that shows transistor count over time. It's fairly easy to see that as of a couple years ago, Moore's law was still going strong. 1: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/190946-stop-obsessing-over-transistor-counts-theyre-a-terrible-way-of-comparing-chips https://www.extremetech.com/computing/190946-stop-obsessing-...