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Rome exists in a gray area between "single integrated device" and "9 integrated devices tightly coupled together."

• robdachshund 7y ago
  I think it's a bit dubious to look at it that way. Claiming the law is dead implies that increasing performance at the rate we used to is now impossible. I agree that we are not able to just keep increasing density to maintain this pattern, but we are able to do so with other methods. So while "Moore's law is dead" in a semantic sense, it's not dead in the sense that we can still maintain performance gains if you use other methods than increasing density alone. I think this distinction is important. Intel declared the law dead and used it as an excuse to avoid innovating when they had no competition. AMDs zen 3 launch proves that we can still achieve architectural leaps in line with Moore's law, but withou relying solely on the process size.