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At PDC 2003, they also stated they were expecting much faster processors - one slide mentioned 6GHz chips.
by MichaelGG 11y ago
At PDC 2003, they also stated they were expecting much faster processors - one slide mentioned 6GHz chips.
- WalterGR 11y agoReally interesting. Mid-2003 is when I started at Microsoft. Though: out in MSN, not where the action was. :) Has Moore's Law really broken down that severely 'lately'? I'm reminded of one of Kurzweil's books that shows 'Moore's Law' holding since before digital computers. But - the book shows - zoomed in, the trend line is actually a succession of periods of fairly rapid growth followed by stagnation. (Obviously though one question is how cherry-picked the underlying data was...) Edit: The book was The Singularity is Near.
- MichaelGG 11y agoTransistors have kept getting cheaper, but single core perf hasn't been growing as fast for the last decade or so.