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I thought Moore's law ended years ago and the current transistor sizes are merely marketing numbers?
by rl1987 3y ago
I thought Moore's law ended years ago and the current transistor sizes are merely marketing numbers?
- pranay01 3y agoI see, can you explain. Aren't transistor sizes still reducing which is what Moore's law predicted (being able to fit more transistors in a wafer)?
- mattbrewsbytes 3y agoI believe the reason the industry went with multi-core chips is because they hit a wall (so to speak) with the actual transistor counts per chip. I would wager a guess that most people have CPUs that are over-powered for their needs. I'm not saying researching and improvement is a waste of time, just that for 95% of the people, buying bleeding edge computers is a waste of money.
- coolvision 3y agoMoore's law is not about transistor sizes, it's for number of transistors on a chip. This is still going strong, at least for the next few years.