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Intel's monopoly handicapped Moore's law for a decade until competition reemerged.
by billions 7y ago
Intel's monopoly handicapped Moore's law for a decade until competition reemerged.
- derefr 7y agoMoore's law is about transistor density, and Intel is not responsible for its leveling-off; that'd be the order-of-magnitude increase in engineering challenge due to quantum effects at lower scales. There was plenty of competition to shrink die size (especially on mobile, a market Intel isn't even competing in) but everybody who got down to 10nm has just been stuck in the same molasses. Intel is responsible for sitting on its laurels re: highly-multicore processors and total TDP, don't get me wrong. But neither of those have anything to do with Moore's law. Ryzen CPUs are as big as Texas; we're scaling "out" rather than "down" now.