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A Century of Moore’s Law
- ggm 4y agoTransistor scaling being a notional scale now. So in some sense, when the nm stopped being literally density-informing, Moores law became old Moores almanac.
- karmakaze 4y agoAs Ray Kurzweil points out, Moore's Law isn't as interesting to most of us as the overall exponential progress of computational power that combines advances in both hardware and software. The hardware-only aspect should only be of interest to semiconductor manufacturers (or lazy software developers).
- ggm 4y agoIt's informing of power budget: battery life and heat burden, both of which consumers care about. Frequency, maybe less so. But the clock speed asymptote had an effect on core count and core count has driven most of the effective visible improvement in performance against expectations of camera CCD density, image quality, and consequent os and app complexity. The exponent is changing. But he's not wrong.
- karmakaze 4y agoBetter algorithms improve battery life and heat burden too so I don't see how focusing on hardware is better for the consumer.