> The question is whether, when silicon runs out, something else can take over, or whether we just put our hands up and say "OK, that's it, that's about as fast

> The question is whether, when silicon runs out, something else can take over, or whether we just put our hands up and say "OK, that's it, that's about as fast as our computers are ever gonna get". The single-core speed trend has already started to level-out, which is why we went to multi-cores. There are some relevant slides in the talk by http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/111005.html http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/111005.html