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Broadly agree but just to highlight one vital point which is not mentioned - each new platform has been enabled by the progression of Moore's law which has radi
by klelatti 6y ago
Broadly agree but just to highlight one vital point which is not mentioned - each new platform has been enabled by the progression of Moore's law which has radically changed what is possible in a form factor / power budget / price budget.
Implicitly, I think, Ben assumes that Moore's law is slowing or coming to a halt. That's probably the case but I think that the honest answer on the question that Ben asks is that we don't know until we know how Moore's law will pan out over the next 10 years or so.
- dilawar 6y agoEvery iteration under Moore laws gets costlier (roughly by 1 order of magnitude costly than the previous iteration, iirc). So sooner of later, well run out of money evn if theoretical potential remains to be exploited. And current status of research in physics doesn't give me hope that some affordable breakthrough is coming soon.