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Actually, Moore's law says nothing about speed, just the number of transistors you can stuff into the thing. Plus progress has been leveling off.
by gshdg 6y ago
Actually, Moore's law says nothing about speed, just the number of transistors you can stuff into the thing. Plus progress has been leveling off.
- all_blue_chucks 6y agoThe only reason anyone ever cared transistor count is because that is a rough proxy for measuring speed.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoIt hasn't been for a long, long time now.
- marcosdumay 6y agoMoore's paper was about VLSI manufacturing. He certainly cared about transistor count. He didn't once touch on how those transistors get to be used.
- all_blue_chucks 6y agoWhy did he care about transistor count?
- marcosdumay 6y agoVLSI manufacturing makes chips, made of transistors. It does not sell end products. The end products are a concept that their clients care about, not them. The same way a tree farmer does not spend his days thinking about toilet paper, even though that's what he is actually helping create. Instead, he thinks about trees, and how to best grow them. Make no mistake, he knew he worked on the production of CPUs and memories, it was just not his focus. Also, he certainly cared about switching time, but his observation was about transistor count, not switching time.
- all_blue_chucks 6y agoWhy did their clients care about transistor count?