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I think this question has already been answered -- Moore's Law has been out of play (for processor speed) for some time now. Microprocessor companies are now ba
by psyklic 17y ago
I think this question has already been answered -- Moore's Law has been out of play (for processor speed) for some time now. Microprocessor companies are now banking on massive parallelism.
One of the most promising new technologies (imo) relies on probabilistic transistors -- which occurs as they get smaller and more current leakage occurs. A perfect example is video decompression, which does not have to be exact. You can get drastic power reduction by doing it probabilistically (for some applications), which is great for mobile devices.
- icey 17y agoMoore's law doesn't have to do with processor speed. It has to do with the number of transistors that can be placed on a chip. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law Moore's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware. Since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958, the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has increased exponentially, doubling approximately every two years. Speed gains have been a side effect of this.
- psyklic 17y agoYes, I was referring to the fact that Moore's law is still applicable in terms of computer memory, but not microprocessors ... In any regard, I listened to talks four years ago that convincingly stated that it was no longer applicable, so it seems that we've already seen what happens once Moore's Law is no longer accurate.