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Apparently, Charlie hasn't gotten the memo: http://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/1388-scariest-graph-i-ve-seen-recently.html http://www.semiwiki.com/forum/cont
by eleitl 14y ago
Apparently, Charlie hasn't gotten the memo: http://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/1388-scariest-graph-i-ve-seen-recently.html http://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/1388-scariest-graph-i-...
These are financial limits, the scaling limits will end at about 1-3 nm. But it will take longer, as doubling will no longer in constant time.
- Symmetry 14y agoWell, that does imply that we could keep making the same processors at smaller sizes for the same price. Power density issues might constrain speeding things up at that point, but it would certainly be a continuation of Koomey's law. EDIT: Maybe more likely is that we might be seeing a future slowdown of Moore's law to a doubling every 24 months or more, allowing fabs more time to amortize their investments. This would be bad, but not the end of the world.