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Intel PR was always too much addicted to Moore's Law. The Moore's Law is almost dead and so is Intel (Most semiconductor industry forecasters, including Gordon
by novaRom 8y ago
Intel PR was always too much addicted to Moore's Law. The Moore's Law is almost dead and so is Intel (Most semiconductor industry forecasters, including Gordon Moore, expect Moore's law will end by around 2025)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#Near-term_limits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#Near-term_limits
- PeCaN 8y agoI mean, in the strict formulation of "transistor counts doubling every 2 years" it's been dead since like 2015 if not earlier. That said, the "death of Moore's law" is kind of this memetic doomsday device that doesn't really mean anything. We haven't had significantly faster single-threaded performance for years and we're developing ways to cope with that. Intel's real problem is that they keep missing the boat on new markets for chips. ARM got smartphones. Nvidia got machine learning. (Xeon Phi is cool. Maybe someone will notice. Maybe they'll fix the instruction decoder so it can actually operate at full speed. Who knows.) Intel killed off Itanium and then we discovered that every modern CPU design except Itanium is horrifically vulnerable. IBM is rapidly encroaching on the server market with innovations like CAPI/BlueLink. If Intel is "dead", it's not because of the death of Moore's Law, it's because they let everyone else eat their lunch.