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> My key point about Moore's law is that it's about being able to 'throw new hardware' at a problem. If you're changing the game by saying, hey we've now got 1
by tomxor 7y ago
> My key point about Moore's law is that it's about being able to 'throw new hardware' at a problem. If you're changing the game by saying, hey we've now got 1000 cpu chiplets [...]
You're ignoring the physics. You can do all you want with new hardware designs, larger dies, more CPUs etc but ultimately it cannot make the same exponential gains that came with process shrinkage because power consumption and heat dissipation problems increase with every extra transistor if the process size remains the same.
I'm not saying gains cannot be made without shrinking, but they will be incremental, at the most linear with a short window, but they will not be exponential and they will come with another cost (more power consumption). For Moore's Law to be revived, look to material science for answers.
- coldtea 7y ago>You're ignoring the physics. You can do all you want with new hardware designs, larger dies, more CPUs etc but ultimately it cannot make the same exponential gains that came with process shrinkage because power consumption and heat dissipation problems increase with every extra transistor if the process size remains the same. He's not ignoring the physics, he's saying Moore's law (the "throw more hardware at the problem" version) is dead because of physics...