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Moore's Law doesn't really work anymore. It hasn't held for the last 4 years, IIRC. That's why a lot of focus has been on multicore systems to try and get new s
by arthurcolle 6y ago
Moore's Law doesn't really work anymore. It hasn't held for the last 4 years, IIRC. That's why a lot of focus has been on multicore systems to try and get new speedups based on parallel computing as opposed to getting purely single-chip improvements.
- mpfundstein 6y agoit indeed doesn't work anymore for single CPUs but still seems to hold for other thibgs. eg memory (ddr5) or chipsize (see 7nm chips)
- ComputerGuru 6y agoMoores law is strictly about transistor count and not performance, it is just that we are only now seeing the two come decoupled.
- arthurcolle 6y agoAren't transistor count and performance very positively correlated?
- ComputerGuru 6y agoThey are, but performance in teraflops is not the same as performance in general computing activities. We are now scaling horizontally within a single cpu package.
- arthurcolle 6y agoWow that's crazy, I had no idea. Do you have a link on arxiv or something I can check out?