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Nitpick: Moore's Law is about the transistor density, not clock speed. So while clock speed increases slowed down around 2005, transistor density kept marching[
by positr0n 10y ago
Nitpick: Moore's Law is about the transistor density, not clock speed. So while clock speed increases slowed down around 2005, transistor density kept marching[1]. The extra transistors just went to bigger caches, more parallelism, and more complex cpu architectures.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law#/media/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore%27s_Law_-_2011.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law#/media/File:Transi...